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- Diplomacy is to do and say
- The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
ISAAC GOLDBERG, The Reflex
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands
All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
ZHOU ENLAI, Saturday Evening Post, Mar. 27, 1954
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
TONY BENN, speech, Feb. 28, 1991
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
SIR HENRY WOTTON, inscribed on the album of Christopher Fleckmore, 1604
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, "The American Ambassador," Foreign Service Journal, June 1969
The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.
BARACK OBAMA, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2009
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