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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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

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

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

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

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

Law is always better than war.

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

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

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

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.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

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

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

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

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

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

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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.‘

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

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

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures – sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns – some organized by popular movements.

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.

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

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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.

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

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

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

I 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.

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

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

It 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.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

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.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.