quotes about Diplomacy
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Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.
-- Ali LarijaniSource : "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
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ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
-- Andrew Young -
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
-- Andrew Young -
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
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You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time
-- Bo -
Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.
-- Charlie Huston -
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the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
-- Clement Attlee -
Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
-- George P. Bush -
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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
-- Henry A. Kissinger -
Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
-- Isaac GoldbergSource : The Reflex, Oct. 1927
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I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!
-- Jimmy Cliff -
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Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
-- John Bolton -
War is failure of diplomacy.
-- John DingellSource : "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
-- Karl Kraus -
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
-- Lincoln Chafee -
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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
-- Margaret Sanger -
Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
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Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity, but it needs to be rethought, refounded.
-- Nicolas Sarkozy -
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
-- Peter Ustinov -
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
-- Robert MacNeil -
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I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
-- S.M. StirlingSource : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.316, Penguin
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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas R. Pickering -
This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.
-- Tom DaschleSource : "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.
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We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.
-- Walt Whitman Rostow -
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
-- Zhou EnlaiSource : Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1954.
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What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.
-- John Prendergast -
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Follow your instincts, and handle all with respect and diplomacy.
-- Rachael YamagataSource : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, nicheandnook.com. November 3, 2015.
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I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy.
-- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono -
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
-- Julian Burnside