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.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

Certainly I’ll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I’ve gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

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.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

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.

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

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I’m a Bangalore boy.

I’ve been to Disneyland, like, 10 times. I’m getting really tired of Disneyland.

Learn to think continentally.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

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?

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

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.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

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

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

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

The 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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

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.

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.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there’s a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.