For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

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

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

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.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

I think America has always been polarized.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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

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

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

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

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.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

We 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.

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

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

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

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

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

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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

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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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.