There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration’s militancy and aggressiveness.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

In Romania, American forces have found a devoted NATO ally.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.