Caspar Weinberger Quotes

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Ukraine is a very responsible state and a very responsible part of the Minsk Agreement. We do everything we promise.

When I was negotiating with our foreign allies, I knew I had to do so in good faith, or trust would be broken - and those allies wouldn't be there when we really needed them.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

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.

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Iran is for negotiations…. This is the principle of Iranian Foreign Policy…. Iranians should make sure that the United States is not using pressure on Iran for negotiations.

Diplomacy is tough, slogging, slow work—and hard work.

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.

Negotiating with Iran and believing they will keep their word is naive at best.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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

The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'