Edward Grey Quotes

My diplomatic position will not consist of going and kneeling down in front of George Bush.

Statecraft, as these cases convincingly illustrate, is demanding and often exhausting work. There are risks, and success is not guaranteed. It requires major governmental and political resources and the same kind of hourly, year-round planning and execution as the conduct of a military campaign.

A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

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.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

Threats must be credible if they are to influence the behavior of other states.

You can’t outsource diplomacy. You can’t do it unless you do it.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

We cannot permit hostage taking to shape the foreign policy of this country.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hard on the feet.

We have to deal with it diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

Serbia must now be dealt with.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

You'd be surprised how many times I've had to have that conversation with heads of state who want to say to me, 'Well, look, I know you can have some influence on the president. I need you to go back and tell him this.'

I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

As the United States Congress considers military intervention in Syria, per President Obama's request, I think it's important to be very honest about what we are considering.

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of revenge.

What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

Mr. Roosevelt. You perhaps believe that your intervention can be effective anywhere.

No President is going to say, “I am not going to preempt.” This is simply a reality.

Diplomacy … means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies