Diplomatic Quotes

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies.

A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.