Chester A. Crocker Quotes

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear.

Thankfully, President Trump doesn't just complain about problems - he solves them.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.

All good Presidents are supple.

We have generals working on worst-case scenarios; we need statesmen on best cases.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

If someone agrees with you they're a statesman. If someone disagrees with you, they're a politician.

I remember thinking that there was no problem that we [government] couldn't resolve.

Every statesman must attempt to reconcile what is considered just with what is considered possible.

There is never a military solution to any problem.

Parliament will train your men to the manners required of a statesman; but in a much less degree to the intrinsic functions of one. To these latter, it is capable of mistraining as nothing else can. Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. To tell a good story for yourself, and to make it appear that you have done your work

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

I have seen the president and Secretary Tillerson work together. They work very well together. They talk through things. And then they manage it properly.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.

You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.