#diplomacy

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#diplomacy #power #restraining

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#big #card #diplomacy #gamble #hand

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #avert #change #continue #destruction

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#different #diplomacy #enterprise #failure #hence

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

#along #course #developing #diplomacy #enforcement

War is failure of diplomacy. ↗

— John Dingell

#failure #war

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

— George W. Bush

#credible #diplomacy #doubt #effective #must

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

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

— Daniel Pipes

#diplomacy #does #due #end #general

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

#diplomacy #inspirational #communication