"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"

Thea Harrison, American Author

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Diplomacy, Fish, Nation

"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Diplomacy, America, Humor, Power

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Diplomacy, Business, Opportunity, Being, Compromise

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Diplomacy, Peace, Nations, Want

"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Diplomacy, Politics, History, Power, World

"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."

"Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it."

"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."

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"I trust no one, not even myself."

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

"Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs."

"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."

"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"