When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.
Colin PowellI believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
Narendra ModiFree nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. BushThis election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan QuayleIf I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. TrumanI think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.
John KennedyI do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. BushAbove all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
Ronald ReaganI almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel CastroChina 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.
Bill GatesWhile the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.
Robert KiyosakiThere’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack ObamaWe can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald ReaganThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.
Benjamin DisraeliIn the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.
Noam ChomskyFrom the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.
Noam ChomskyI am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.
Narendra ModiNo nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe BidenI can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.
Joe BidenAs strong as the United States is, we can’t deal with terrorism alone.
Madeleine AlbrightMy fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. KennedyIn the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam ChomskyWars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore RooseveltNow you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack ObamaIn general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
Noam ChomskyThe United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.
Joe BidenEvery nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.
John KennedyIn the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.
Noam ChomskyIsrael is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.
Noam ChomskyA diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe BidenA sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James MadisonI don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.
Colin PowellI think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
Barack ObamaThe Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Fidel CastroThe United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. EisenhowerSaudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
Joe BidenWhen I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.
Anthony BourdainIn many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Noam ChomskyFidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
Noam ChomskyNow if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.
Will RogersRight now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Michelle ObamaWe should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra ModiI don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.
Billy GrahamIn the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren BuffettIsraelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.
Noam ChomskyThe U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
Noam ChomskyI’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.
Angelina JolieThe fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Christopher HitchensLadies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.
Dave GrohlRussia 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.
Colin PowellOhio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will RogersOur society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. NixonEgypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Noam ChomskyOf all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
Hunter S. ThompsonThere’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.
Noam ChomskyOther than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
Joe BidenIraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Madeleine AlbrightWe will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush