Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an...

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I...

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

The United States is worried about China’s military build-up and energy diplomacy.

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the...

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,

The conference has helped promote China’s multilateral diplomacy, and has helped more foreign friends better understand China’s pursuit of a peaceful and scientific development.

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

You’re in America now,” I said. “Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.

Military strategy…has become the diplomacy of violence.

It means that the U.S. and the EU3 are intending to kill two issues, first to stop diplomacy and second to kill the Russian proposal.

Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

The actual results of political diplomacy can openly be seen in critical moments. Turkey can insist on leading a very successful foreign policy, however, the acceptance of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by any...

The external exchanges of the CPPCC is an important part of China’s overall diplomacy, and the CPPCC enjoys its unique advantages in promoting friendly cooperation and exchanges between the Chinese people and people in the...

Rolf Ekeus came round to my apartment one day and showed me the name of the Iraqi diplomat who had visited the little West African country of Niger: a statelet famous only for its production...

I think we’ll be successful with the quiet financial diplomacy,

But it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.””It might to keep it open.

is going to work hard to reform and strengthen the public diplomacy efforts.

good room for diplomacy and verification.

As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one...

That’s precisely why the majority of the population voted me into public office.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words ‘Special Relationship’ to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.

Your name?” George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man’s history...

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

when diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and...

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing number of diplomats (to say nothing of the burgeoning number of spies and...

a diplomat is a person who handle his mother and wife at the same time without hurting any of them.

There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

Diplomacy is the only clear answer to the current situation.

The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which lends itself to graceful expression even when dealing with fairly basic...

His knowledge of war has fed a passion for peace.

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Diplomacy is the art of getting what you want without offending anyone too badly.

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship...

The diplomacy won’t start until our president stops saying no ground troops. We really have to get over that, … This Week.

Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to...

The train is leaving the station. If diplomacy fails here, we will have to look at different options.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. Having received an ultimatum from Austria, the Turkish Ministry met to consider it.””O servant of the Prophet,”” said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk...

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

I observe and remain silent.

Diplomacy never works.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.