Diplomacy Quotes and Sayings

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
- Bo Bennett

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
- Randolph Bourne

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
- Martin Luther King

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
- David Lloyd George

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
- Barbara Mikulski

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
- Barbara Tuchman

Globalization far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
- Omar Bongo

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
- Kofi Busia

Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
- David Frost

I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
- Star Trek

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers

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

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
- Arthur J. Goldberge

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Will Durant

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
- Ellen Tauscher

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady’s birthday but forgets her age.
- Anonymous

Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
- Robert Menendez

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.
- James Reston

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