Robert Crandall Quotes

You can reach agreements with countries; you cannot reach agreements with gangs.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

Drafting a treaty is much like drafting a law, and I doubt if the members of this committee could point to a single law whose text they would all agree is absolutely perfect, totally without a flaw. The successive drafts of a treaty get better and better …. Even the final text that is signed and ratified will have flaws, but it will be accepted if it is seen by a strong consensus as substantially better than no treaty at all.

Much of the relationship between the peoples of two countries has nothing to do with treaties or pieces of paper exchanged by people like me.

Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace – but a peace I hope with honour.

Boundary and peace treaties are not inspired documents.

I sleep soundly. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

No two men ever devised plans of action to accomplish a particular object without finding that there were differences in their plans. That is peculiarly the case in international affairs.

America will honor our treaty obligations.

Still, in international matters, the treaty changes nothing. That is, it doesn't prevent us from being friends with other countries, which indeed we are.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.

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

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I don't like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don't think that fighting and passion are the same thing.

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.