Quotes about diplomacy
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William Blum photo

“During the period between the two world wars, US gunboat diplomacy operated in the Caribbean to make "The American Lake" safe for the fortunes...”

William Blum (1933–2018) American author and historian

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Introduction

World, War, Making love
Tony Abbott photo

“I don't really do diplomacy”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

&#x27;I don&#x27;t really do diplomacy&#x27;: Tony Abbott unsure of his next move https://www.theage.com.au/federal-election-2019/i-don-t-really-do-diplomacy-tony-abbott-unsure-of-his-next-move-20190531-p51tbe.html; Sydney Morning Herald, June 2, 2019 <br class="br">Post-Parliament (2019-)

Mike Pompeo photo

“Diplomacy and military strike go hand in hand... They are indeed intimately related; each relies on the other.”

Mike Pompeo (1963) 70th United States Secretary of State, former Director of Central Intelligence Agency and former Congressman fro…

Secretary Pompeo Q&amp;A Discussion at Texas A&amp;M University, Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=x6wbfjspVww (21 April 2019) <br class="br">2019

Relation ships

“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 46, p. 358

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury photo

“Diplomacy which does not rest on force is the most feeble and futile of weapons, and except for bare self-defence, we have not the force.”

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician

Letter to Lord Lytton (8 March 1877), quoted in David Steele, Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (2001), p. 108
1870s

Alfred de Zayas photo

“In a world of fake news, fake history, fake law, fake diplomacy, it is no surprise to encounter fake democracy along the way.”

Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official

2021

Democracy, History, Law, Way
Joe Biden photo

“I also know that you are essential to the work of our diplomacy — not only as the ultimate guarantor of our security, but as diplomats yourselves.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2021, February 2021, Remarks by President Biden to Department of Defense Personnel, February 10, 2021

Kim Stanley Robinson photo

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)

Friendship
Kim Stanley Robinson photo

“It was a mistake to speak one’s mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 418)

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