193 Quotes About Diplomacy

Americans, being a moral people, want their foreign policy to reflect the values we espouse as a nation. But Americans, being a practical people, also want their foreign policy to be effective.

A civilian-based diplomacy supports noncommercial, nonprofit, and publicly-subsidized media to counteract the corporate-controlled, for-profit, private media that dominate political discourse; and works to place media control, ownership, and lobbying at the center of public policy debate.

Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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