For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack ObamaNo country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry KissingerWhen I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.
Alice WalkerThere’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.
Colin PowellGeography 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.
John F. KennedyThe United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
George W. BushIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon BonaparteI consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
Joe BidenWe can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Barack ObamaThe 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 BidenI have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond TutuNo nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe BidenPeople are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Madeleine AlbrightEgypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.
Noam ChomskyDiplomats 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.
Will RogersNATO’s essentially run by the United States.
Noam ChomskySaudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.
Joe BidenThere is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhile 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 KiyosakiPutin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
Jim MattisPolitics is the womb in which war develops.
Carl von ClausewitzThere is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.
Henry KissingerA very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.
Noam ChomskyWar is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
Carl von ClausewitzUnless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWe make war that we may live in peace.
AristotleI’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.
Joe BidenThe 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 DisraeliIt makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.
Noam ChomskyWhen George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.
Noam ChomskyWar is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von ClausewitzThe U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
Noam ChomskyIt cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
Noam ChomskyAs a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack ObamaWar is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
Carl von ClausewitzI do not believe we will have a war with Iran.
John KennedyThe 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.
Noam ChomskyI have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.
Madeleine AlbrightFree nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. BushAfter 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
Barack ObamaThe truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.
John KennedyEvery nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Arthur SchopenhauerSaddam’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.
Madeleine AlbrightIt is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe BidenHistory shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
Noam ChomskyFoe 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.
Colin PowellThe only defensible war is a war of defense.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher HitchensIsrael is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
Alice WalkerI have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.
Henry KissingerTake the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will RogersI am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.
Narendra ModiIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Noam ChomskyUnlike 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.
Noam ChomskyI 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 KennedyEverybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
Ray BradburyDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerNo matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.
Madeleine AlbrightFor a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.
Jim MattisThis was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush