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

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

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

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.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

While 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.

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

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.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

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.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

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

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

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

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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 only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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

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

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

A 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.

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.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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

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 can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

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

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

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

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.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

We make war that we may live in peace.