Using diplomatic weapons at our disposal, including economic levers, to encourage fairness and human dignity, we can advance our business interests while remaining true to ourselves.

This was painting as a diplomatic weapon: conceived, created and wielded by one extraordinary man.

Consider first how much the diplomatic weapon has already accomplished.

Bowing to that pressure would violate an admirable American tradition of not using food as a diplomatic weapon.

I don't want to use food as a diplomatic weapon from this point forward.

However we cannot allow Russia to bully its neighbours and use its hydrocarbon resources as a diplomatic weapon.

Finally, as winter approaches, Russia cannot be permitted once again to use its virtual monopoly of gas supplies to Europe as a diplomatic weapon.

Last month, the Clinton Administration used every diplomatic weapon at its command to secure permanent extension of the treaty limiting the spread of nuclear weapons.

American presidents used wheat to support Allied troops in both world wars and tried to wield it as a diplomatic weapon against the Soviet Union.

Would not use food as a unilateral sanction or diplomatic weapon.