The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war – diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power – and we are developing new tools as we go along.
- Richard Armitage

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- Charles de Gaulle

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
- Lajos Kossuth

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
- Trygve Lie

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

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
- George P. Shultz

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
- W. Averell Harriman

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
- Richard Perle

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- Tony Benn

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
- Mahmoud Abbas

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
- Andrew Young

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once.
- Andrew Jackson

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
- Henry Wotton

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

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
- Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
- Daniele Vare

I never refuse I contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
- Allen Boyd

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
- Moliere

Diplomat A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinett

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
- Chou En Lai

Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Herford

Diplomacy The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
- Wynn Catlin

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
- Lincoln Chafee

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
- Daniel Pipes

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