Hillary Clinton Quotes

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

Negotiations are the most essential tool of statecraft.

It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

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

I'm simply saying that there are advantages in sending a skilled diplomat who can always say, 'I'll get back to you on that, Mr. Minister'.

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.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie!” till you can find a rock.

The art of diplomacy is to take your humiliations in private.

There was no authority with which diplomacy could deal.

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

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.

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

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

Someone needs to talk sense to the president. But these people are not world travelers. This president, much as I like him, had all the opportunities in the world.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

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

Every diplomatic breakthrough is preceded by a crisis, but not every crisis leads to a breakthrough.

Why did you send that fool with the umbrella to talk to Hitler?. Why didn't you send a man?

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