Condoleezza Rice Quotes

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

Negotiations are the most essential tool of statecraft.

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

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.

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

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

Diplomacy, contrary to the current misconception, is not about making nice, exchanging happy talk, and offering concessions. It is the engine that converts raw energy and tangible power into meaningful political results. In other words, diplomacy is all about the intelligent use of power. Diplomacy is not an alternative to coercion and other forms of power; its effectiveness depends on their skillful use.

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.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

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

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

In several speeches and interviews, Donald Trump has brought up his book 'The Art of the Deal,' and said that Obama would have negotiated a better deal with Iran if he had read it. It got even more awkward for Obama when Iran was like, 'It worked for us - you guys got screwed!'

Hillary Clinton knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.

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

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

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.

Personal pique is not a foreign policy.

You'd make a great Secretary of State because State Department personnel don't answer questions completely either.

Diplomacy is the art of letting somebody else have your way.

The history of diplomacy is the history of relations among rival powers which did not enjoy political intimacy and did not respond to appeals to common purposes. Nevertheless, ... to think that rival and unfriendly powers cannot be brought to a settlement is to forget what diplomacy is about.

Diplomacy is a little bit like Jazz. It’s improvisation on a theme.