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

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

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

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

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

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

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

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.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

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

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

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

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

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.

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

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

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

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.

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

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

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.

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

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

Law is always better than war.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

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.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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

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.

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

We’ve protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there’s no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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