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  • Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

    Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1961). “The Story of Civilization: The Age of Reason begins, 1558-1648”
  • Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

    Peace   Evil   Would Be  
    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

    Thinking   Hands   Cards  
  • Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

  • ...the Stone Table [was] a place that served as the OK Corral for the Faerie Courts when they decided to engage in diplomacy by means of murdering anyone on the other team.

    Team   Mean   Tables  
    Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.332, Penguin
  • Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

    Military   War   Writing  
  • This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

    Peace   War   President  
    "The Trouble With Senator Tom Daschle". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2003.
  • In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.

    Source: simerg.com
  • We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on North Korea, on Kim Jong-un, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of America, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, plain and simple.

    Ambition   Simple   Korea  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

  • Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

    Iran   Ends   Diplomacy  
    "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.
  • We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy.

    Asian   Needs   Diplomacy  
  • America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

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

    Walter Bagehot (1877). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.188
  • This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

    Secret   Cost   Politics  
  • I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

    S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.316, Penguin
  • Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  • We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

    Leadership   Money   War  
  • We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

  • 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.

    Gun   Hands   Ideas  
    Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin
  • French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2756, Simon and Schuster
  • I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

  • Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.

    Virtue   Easy   Companion  
    Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.218, Penguin
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  • Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

  • The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

    Source: www.nytimes.com
  • All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

    War   Failure   Diplomats  
    Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. February 28, 1991.
  • He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.

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