It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly

Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people bringing people together to deal with difficult issues

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends but not quite deceiving all your enemies

I don t think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy

Globalization far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States has on the contrary intensified it

The time draws near when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy

In the end the work of diplomats continues even while others fight So it s not necessarily true that everyone needs to march

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

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations in politics perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters and that is the facts