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Diplomacy Quotes
"In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads."
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
"Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth."
"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way."
"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes."
"The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place."
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
"For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts."
"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."
"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
"Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans."
"But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
"I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to."
"I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off."
"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
"Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces."
"Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations."
"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."
"I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues."
"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
"Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy."
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