Quotes about Diplomacy
Meeting Roosevelt was like uncorking your first bottle of champagne.
— Winston Churchill
The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.
— Winston Churchill
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.
— Winston Churchill
No nation is fit to set in judgment upon any other nation
— Woodrow Wilson
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.
— Woodrow Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
— Woodrow Wilson
Queen Victoria complained that Gladstone talked to her as if he were addressing a public meeting. She preferred Disraeli, who talked to her like a human being. When you write copy, follow Disraeli's example.
— David Ogilvy
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
— Madeleine Albright
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
— Jimmy Carter
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
— Alice Walker