Quotes about Diplomacy

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Meeting Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation