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

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.

You have no idea how much it contributes to the general politeness and pleasantness of diplomacy when you have a little quiet armed force in the background

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,–great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

He’s focused on the diplomacy under way.

He has diplomacy written all over him.

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can’t. Diplomacy won’t. It has to be people like us.

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

you need diplomacy and not slogans.

I don’t think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

We are not going to stop there. To Tunisia, classical diplomacy is not enough. We also want to base our actions and relations with the foreign market on private diplomacy.

Leaders must have splendid flavour of pretending for contending situations.

The recent flurry of diplomacy is good preparation for these talks and helps in understanding,

This is simply a new phase of diplomacy, an extension of diplomatic efforts to find a solution.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

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.