I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

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.

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.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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.

I 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.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

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

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

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

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.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

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.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

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.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

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

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

I’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

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.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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

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

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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?

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

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.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Law is always better than war.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.