Diplomacy Quotes

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

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

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I observe and remain silent.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

There is no diplomacy like silence.

War is failure of diplomacy.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

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

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

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!

The most important thing is to find collective solutions in diplomacy and I think that is possible.

I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy.

I know no diplomacy save that of truth.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.