#diplomacy

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

The only way to speak is diplomatically, and British is the imperial English tongue. I have expelled all claims to American independence from my pronunciation, and I have never felt more liberated. ↗

— Bauvard

#british #diplomacy #english #freedom #funny

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#burden #coalition #continue #cost #diplomacy

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#atmosphere #creates #diplomacy #distrust #however

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

— Douglas Feith

#anything #conducting #diplomacy #i #out

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

#courageous #crafty #diplomacy #fighthing #heroic

The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#diplomacy #mafia #friendship

Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#militarism #victory

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. ↗

— Isaac Goldberg

#nicest #say #things #way

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

#avoiding #diplomacy #doing #more #right