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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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Isaac Goldberg
American
Critic
Born:
1887
Died:
Jul 14
,
1938
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,
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,
Nicest
,
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Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.
Colin Powell
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Listening
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Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
Bo Bennett
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Time
Diplomacy
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Right Time
More
Wrong
Wrong Things
Doing
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Avoiding
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Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Diplomacy
More
Effective
Than
Quiet
Public
Far
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry Kissinger
Art
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In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
Lincoln Chafee
World
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Diplomacy
Some
Some Things
Unsaid
Left
Things
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
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Diplomacy
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Speaking
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
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Address
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Mutual Respect
Objectives
Constructive
Shared
Counterparts
Footing
Equal
Concerns
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Means
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Basis
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.
Will Rogers
War
You
Diplomacy
Fall
Soldiers
Out
Would
Diplomats
Finishing
Week
Take
Essential
Just
Flat
Thing
Starting
In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
Barack Obama
Leadership
World
Strong
Diplomacy
Power
Our
Complex
Security
Threats
Principled
Depends
Including
Elements
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg
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