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  • If some small storekeeper somewhere decides he's not going to pay the money, the Godfather doesn't let him get away with it. The money doesn't mean anything to him, but he sends in his goons to beat him to a pulp. You have to establish credibility, otherwise conformity to your orders will tend to erode. International affairs runs in much the same way.

    Running   Mean   Order  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

  • When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

    War   Voice   Forever  
  • Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear all they want from people with reason to be respected as knowledgeable.

    Thinking   Air   People  
    Source: www.alex-haley.com
  • Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

    Country   Powerful   War  
    Vladimir Putin “VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich”, ITBM
  • (I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

    Taken   Player   Europe  
  • International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

    Running   Order   Ideas  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • When diplomacy ends, War begins.

    War   Mein Kampf   Ends  
  • Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  • The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

  • International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

    People   Way   Affair  
    Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”
  • ...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

    Cost   Benefits   Matter  
    Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.304, Penguin UK
  • Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

    Fear   Race   Order  
  • In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

  • Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

  • The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.

    Hate   Hatred   Feelings  
    "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.
  • Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

  • Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

    Science   Games   Trying  
  • I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

    Atmosphere   Want   Males  
  • The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

    Taken   Pride   People  
    Source: www.nytimes.com
  • Science is the search for truth.

  • Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

    Girl   Mean   Men  
  • Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

    New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1968.
  • It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

    Love   Heart   Law  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1924). “Young India: 1919-1922”
  • I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.

  • The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

    Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

  • The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

    Food   Taken   Simple  
    James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.43, Open Road Media
  • The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

    Death   War   Simple  
    Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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