Donald Trump Quotes

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

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.

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.

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.

We won’t be very successful with the Chinese leadership [on human rights issues] if we’re in their face all the time.

lot of the uneasiness among Mexican leaders is because of the unknowns. Well those are to be determined and to be discussed and to be negotiated. At the end of the day, our neighborss aren't going anywhere and neigher are we, and we need to find ways to make it work.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

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.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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.