Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role
Acheson, Dean Gooderham

Alliance: in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others' pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

Diplomacy: the patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness
Bismarck, Otto von

What is happening now is very simple. It is the battle of seminal important for the early 21st century. It will define relations between the Muslim world and the West.
Blair, Tony Charles Lynton

These supposedly evil Americans have voted $19 billion of their own money in aid. Not a penny piece of Iraq's oil money has gone anywhere but into an account under the supervision of the IMF and the UN.
Blair, Tony Charles Lynton

Communism didn't fall. It was pushed
Bush, President George Herbert Walker

The Soviet Union didn't just lose the Cold War. Western democracies won it
Bush, President George Herbert Walker

Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us.
Bush, President George W

Diplomacy - the art of saying "Nice doggie" ’til you can find a stick.
Catlin, Wynn

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

Personally I agree with the president in his distrust of de Gaulle...remember that there is not a scrap of generosity about this man, who only wishes to pose as the saviour of France in this operation without a single French soldier at his back
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean
Clay, Henry

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last
De Gaulle, General Charles-André-Joseph-Marie

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern
Disraeli, Benjamin

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor
Disraeli, Benjamin

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good
Dulles, John Foster

There are no friends at cards or world politics
Dunne, Finley Peter

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race
Field, Frank

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
Fields, William Claude

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Goldberg, Arthur Joseph

The principal reason for changes is not to be found in the machinations of the imperialist West…The crisis of the Communist movement and its collapse were fundamentally unavoidable. For the crisis was produced by the inner weakness of the Communist idea, the realisation of which had led to the establishment of a totalitarian society. This model was bound to collapse sooner or later.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

The state is 'a composite of individuals' not 'an abstract entity with own.'
Grotius, Hugo