Vacillation and inconsistency are as incompatible with successful diplomacy as they are with the national dignity.
He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
