Paul Manafort Quotes

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

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

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

Bipartisanship is like marriage. It takes two to make it work. It only takes one to make it a failure. The President has been playing politics with foreign policy.

Politicians make pacts; people make peace.

Why did you send that fool with the umbrella to talk to Hitler?. Why didn't you send a man?

Yasser Arafat was the epitome of gracious Arab hospitality. I must have had 1000 meals with him. The problem was that he could never translate that hospitality to negotiations.

The limits of diplomacy must be acknowledged.

Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva

I had to leave the Foreign Service to do the two things I joined it to do—negotiate, and make policy.

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?