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...

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

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.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

We see that diplomacy as a way out of this conundrum.

In the movies you get even; in life, diplomacy is best.

Ciente de tuas capacidades e limitações, não inicies nenhuma empreitada que não possas levar a cabo.

We fully acknowledge that public diplomacy is only part of the picture,

China’s diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

There’ll be a lot of diplomacy going on. There’s no question that all 15 member states of the Security Council are important and will all be talked to.

We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Iran’s strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country’s peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.