有时，外交的力量并不在于光说“不”，而在于想出一个既能维护你自身的利益和原则又能使对方有所收获的方法。

1. Work is viewed as one of the central meanings of life, but at the same time, it now takes so much of many adults’ lives that there is little room for anything else.
2. Currently, Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.
3. Successful foreign policy requires not only military strength, but judicious use of that strength along with economic, political and social assets that build friendships for cooperative efforts to shape a better world.
4. Sometimes the power of diplomacy is not just saying "no", but figuring out a way to protect your interests and principles and help the other guy move forward as well.
5. Many have said that the US may be physically winning the war on terror, but that it is losing the war of information. Would you agree with that statement?