Rush Limbaugh Quotes

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

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

I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

The Republicans are coming - make nice.

Politics is compromise.

I might be an ambassador.

It is possible for political forces to agree.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Although we are very strong, we are pursuing a very calculating and moderate policy. We prefer a political solution and are managing the situation accordingly.

Condelesa Rice waves. She gets off airplanes and waves. She gets the 45 degree angle shot with a foreign dignatory and waves, but she doesn’t make deals. The whole world wants to make deals but she doesn’t make deals. She waves.

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.

Let him (the king) also appoint an ambassador who is versed in all sciences, who understands hints, expressions of the face and gestures, who is honest, skilful, and of noble family. Such an ambassador is commended to a king who is loyal, honest, skilful, possessing a good memory, who knows the proper place and time for action, who is handsome, fearless, and eloquent. For the ambassador alone makes kings' allies and separates allies; the ambassador transacts that business by which kings are disunited or not.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The art of politics is to find something in the middle that satisfies most.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

When diplomats meet, they are, of necessity, ambiguous, in order to get an agreement.

If someone agrees with you they're a statesman. If someone disagrees with you, they're a politician.

It seems to me to matter little whether you have an alliance which is committed to paper, or whether you have an understanding in the minds of the statesmen of the respective countries.

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

Too often ... in statecraft the object is to reach an agreement, which is only sometime—not always—the way to reach a result.

Boundary and peace treaties are not inspired documents.