China 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.

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

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

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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 we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

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.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

The 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.

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

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.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

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

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

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

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they’re not implemented fully, because the U.S. won’t allow it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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

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

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.