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In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyone in America assumed that there would be wars to follow - wars over the reunification of Germany, over the nations within the sphere of Soviet influence, and more. There weren't, because George H. W. Bush's policies and diplomacy prevented that. Ben Domenech

Diplomacy Assumed Everyone Sphere Collapse Would Would-Be Follow More Over Policies Reunification Because Within George Were Wake Germany America Soviet Soviet Union Nations Influence Bush Union Wars

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world. Benjamin Netanyahu

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Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing. Bob Menendez

Challenge Will Diplomacy Trouble Aid Our Broaden Latin Latin America States Latinos See Federal Development Look Terms Scope America Regard International Many United United States Assistance Funds

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. Carlos Fuentes

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? Cynthia P. Schneider

Success Education Attitude Creative Book People Result Diplomacy Feeling Understanding Increase Changes Abandoning Exchange Empathy Performance Stereotypes Quantify Does How Cultural Cultures Any Form Regions Across Use Creative Expression Measuring Expression Film Challenging

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries. Cynthia P. Schneider

Business Goals Diplomacy Strategy Programs Those Countries Most Policy Cultural Iran Contribute Afghanistan Egypt Interactions Successful Basic Core

Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message. David E. Sanger

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Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means. Dennis Ross

Diplomacy Alignment Objectives Successful Means

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. Douglas Feith

Diplomacy Think Ruling Out Conducting Anybody Anything While Should

There is no diplomacy like candor. E. V. Lucas

Diplomacy Like Candor

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated. Ed Royce

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

Science Language Diplomacy Once Latin Secure More Only French Accepted Proved Than English International International Language

Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability. Ellen Tauscher

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. Elliott Abrams

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An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure. Elliott Abrams

Great People Financial Great Deal Will Diplomacy Three Situation Energy Aid Changing Attention Toward Policy Deal Disclosure Affecting South Effective Capable Require Should Sudan Elements Lives

Widowhood had done nothing to curb my smart mouth. So much for diplomacy. Esther Williams

Smart Diplomacy Mouth Nothing Had Curb Done Much

The president recognizes that funding global health is good for national security, domestic health and global diplomacy. Consequently, President Obama has steadily increased funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was created by President Bush and has strong bipartisan support. Ezekiel Emanuel

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

Diplomacy Definitions Open Part Self-Interest Different

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

Diplomacy Nothing Easy About Illusions Fast

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues. John Roos

Together People Diplomacy Difficult Deal Issues Working Fundamentally Bringing

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying. Jonathan Turley

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