• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 45 votes · 13 reads

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• I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 166 reads

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• I learned to be far more skeptical of what I'm told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 9 votes · 38 reads

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• I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 183 reads

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• I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 199 reads

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• I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 152 reads

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• In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 50 reads

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• Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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• Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 140 reads

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• 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.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 41 reads

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• There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 18 reads

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• They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 89 reads

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• This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with the

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 150 reads

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• To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 110 reads

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• We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 120 reads

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• We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 24 votes · 119 reads

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• When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 37 votes · 44 reads

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• When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 173 reads

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• When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 76 reads

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• You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 18 reads

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