Quotes about Diplomatic Coercion

Fareed Zakaria

Making coercive diplomacy work requires a mix of threats and promises—sticks and carrots.

Jim Butcher

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman

Unfortunately even the President of the United States of America has made little of his high office, and he too, either through lack of information or other reasons, has lent himself to the campaign of pressure and intimidation against Guatemala

The President was a left wing nationalist whose policies were counter to the interests of the United Fruit Company and other American businesses. His plan to build another canal connecting Atlantic and Pacific Oceans threatened to take business and control from the Panama Canal which at that point America owned. The CIA covertly engineered a right wing coup ousting him. At the time, it was US foreign policy to try and change any regime that was not acceptable to American Business interests in Latin America or was socialistic or both.

Dennis Kucinich

What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.

Tony Blair

I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.

Lilia Shevtsova

Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Dick Gregory

I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Trick Daddy

If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?'

Diplomatic Coercion Quotes