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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

-Henry A.Kissinger

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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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

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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

-James Buchan

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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

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War is failure of diplomacy.

-John Dingell

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

-Richard Armitage

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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

-Hillary Clinton

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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

-Dee Dee Myers

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Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

-Daniel Pipes

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English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

-Edward Sapir

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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

-Hans Eysenck

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We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

-Michael McCaul

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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way.

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