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

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

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.

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

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

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

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

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

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

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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

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.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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

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

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 people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

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.

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.

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

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

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

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

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

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.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

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.

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

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

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.

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

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

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?

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.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

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

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

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

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