Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

This breakthrough is a diplomatic plus for Pakistan.

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic solution.

Kofi Annan

stress the desirability of a peaceful and diplomatic solution, but events on the ground may be running away from us.

Condoleezza Rice

The Russians . . . want to do what we all want to do, which is they want to pursue a diplomatic path and see if the Iranians will come along.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Especially before the IAEA meeting in February, we hope all sides can further their diplomatic and negotiation efforts.

Marshall Brickman

We had to be diplomatic and discreet, for the protection of the authors.

There's no indication that they're hiding anything. We just need to wade through the diplomatic process to re-establish ties.

Elliott Abrams

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

What this suggests is that we need more of a robust and effective diplomatic strategy.

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

By having a diplomatic meeting, they're ratcheting OPEC up one notch from a producers' cartel to a quasi-diplomatic organization. It's a rare occurrence,

Stephen Kinzer

Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua.

Alexander Downer

We hope that it's going to be possible to get back on to the diplomatic path before too long,

If it involves diplomatic pouches, that information is sensitive one way or another. Obviously we take security very seriously.

If he said that, he's an idiot, ... They can do whatever they want here, say whatever they want, including stupidities. Today, I'm not in a diplomatic mood.

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.