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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

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.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

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.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

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

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

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Law is always better than war.

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

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 fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

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

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

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

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

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 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.

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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

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.

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

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.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

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

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

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.

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.

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?

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

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