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The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method. — James Aldridge

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes. — Harry Truman

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America. — George W. Bush

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself. — Aesop

When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation. — Shinzo Abe

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

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are. — Paul Berman

Diplomacy is much more than just talking to your friends ... You've got to talk to people who aren't our friends, and even people you dislike. — Richard Armitage

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. — Art Linkletter

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand. — Tom Clancy

We've said to the Iranians all along ... we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us. — Barack Obama

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense. — Winston Churchill

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy. — Najib Razak

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. — Ernest Hemingway,

I have a plan. My plan is to not marry her. Diplomacy be damned. There. End of discussion. — Marissa Meyer

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm. — Roberto Bolano

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Winston S. Churchill

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops. — Colin Powell

Peace is war by other means. — Will Durant

There is no diplomacy like silence. — Benjamin Disraeli

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march. — David Brin

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions. — Ambrose Bierce

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets. — Albert J. Nock

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight! — Jimmy Cliff

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy. — Park Geun-hye

Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,. — Tom Daschle

It is good diplomacy to allow our rulers their customs without adopting them ourselves. — Susan Leona Fisher

Unfortunately, diplomacy was a dance I needed to learn. — Maria V. Snyder

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. — Hillary Clinton

For more than five years, I'd made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy - for one thing, the Soviet leaders kept dying on me. — Ronald Reagan

There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. — Will Rogers

President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war. — Tom Daschle

Military strategy...has become the diplomacy of violence. — Thomas C. Schelling

Treachery," said the Mede.
"Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name. — Megan Whalen Turner

That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall. — Kevin J. Shay

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. — Mario Puzo

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen. — Enoch Powell

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way. — Lester B. Pearson

The best diplomacy starts with getting to know each other — George W. Bush

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability. — Joe Klein

Diplomacy was not one of Susan's character flaws. — Annie Nicholas

As I said to Speedicut, it's hell in the diplomatic. — George MacDonald Fraser

diplomacy. A dance of shadows in the darkness. — C.S. Harris

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone. — John Prendergast

It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient. — Keith Laumer

But diplomacy would be easy if we had to talk only to our friends. That's not how peace is made. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers. — S.M. Stirling

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper

Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy. — Ali Larijani

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long. — Robert M. Gates

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country. — Ambrose Bierce

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. — Stephen Hawking

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. — Dennis Ross

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. — Abraham Lincoln

I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair. — Jonah Goldberg

China's diplomacy has made bold headway, serving domestic development and contributing to world peace and common development,. — Li Zhaoxing

That's Irish diplomacy for you.
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The ability to tell someone to go to hell and make them happy to be going. — Gabrielle Evans

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters. — Ronan Farrow

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto — Robert Asprin

Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them. — Gene Wolfe

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

War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left. — Andrew Ashling

Maybe yelling back is a kind of marital diplomacy — Jonathan Tropper

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours. — Robin Hobb

Are you guys really arguing over where to eat dinner?"
"It's one of the more savage tools in the diplomatic arsenal. — Howard Tayler

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally, — Barack Obama

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy. — Paul C. Nagel

Diplomacy never works. — Nadia Scrieva

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that. — Hillary Clinton

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television. — Douglas Hurd

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne

Well, he thought, so this is diplomacy. It's lying, only for a better class of people. — Terry Pratchett

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions. — Iain Pears

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy. — Madeleine Albright

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. — Tom Daschle

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

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy. — Charlie Huston

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. — Charles G. Dawes

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. — Dee Dee Myers

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy. — Jesse Jackson

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. — Robin Hobb

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means. — Dennis Ross

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly. — Tom Clancy

The man mistook American patience and attempts at diplomacy for weakness. — Joseph Badal

Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia. — Alan Greenspan

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. — Theodore Roosevelt

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war. — Will Rogers

Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest things in the nicest way. — Isaac Goldberg

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. — Douglas Feith

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately. — Giuseppe Zanotti

I want justice to be upheld. I want all-out diplomacy. — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace
but a peace I hope with honour. — Benjamin Disraeli

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. — Ptahhotep

The CIA has been at the root of every dirty little war America has fought in this century. The CIA and dollar diplomacy. — Stephen King

We need to strengthen Asian diplomacy. — Ichiro Ozawa