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.
Madeleine AlbrightIf 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.
George WashingtonI 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.
Will RogersIsrael will not tolerate Iran developing nuclear power, even if Iran claims it is for peaceful purposes. If there is an attack, oil prices will go through the roof.
Robert KiyosakiIt’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
Noam ChomskyI have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.
Henry KissingerI’m doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.
Angelina JolieWe have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.
Colin PowellUnlike Iran, Israel refuses to allow inspections at all, refuses to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has hundreds of nuclear weapons, has advanced delivery systems.
Noam ChomskyThe 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.
Barack ObamaMy constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.
Jimmy CarterThe professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that’s all it is, then we’ve gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
Carl SaganSenator 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.
Fidel CastroUnlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
Noam ChomskyLet 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.
Alexander HamiltonAnd so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.
Madeleine AlbrightThe U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
Noam ChomskyIn Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.
Noam ChomskyIran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.
Jim MattisIs the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?
Noam ChomskyThere is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Niccolo MachiavelliI would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma GandhiWe make war that we may live in peace.
AristotleThere 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.
Noam ChomskyTo jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston ChurchillYou can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank ZappaIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon BonaparteI do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
Madeleine AlbrightNo 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.
Henry KissingerForeign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Joe BidenWar is the continuation of politics by other means.
Carl von ClausewitzIran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
Jim MattisFifty 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.
Barack ObamaA 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.
Madeleine AlbrightLet us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. KennedyNo nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.
Joe BidenOur position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
Fidel CastroIran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.
Noam ChomskyDiplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.
Will RogersNo country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry KissingerToday, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamYou 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.‘
Madeleine AlbrightIndia can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamAlthough September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen HawkingWars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore RooseveltIt 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.
Joan of ArcSaddam’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.
Madeleine AlbrightThe truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.
John KennedyA diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
Joe BidenDiplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry KissingerWe 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.
Virginia WoolfWar is never a lasting solution for any problem.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhat is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.
Jim MattisWar is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
Carl von ClausewitzNo nation should stoke instability in its neighbor’s country.
Joe BidenI think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
Colin PowellI consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
Jim MattisFree nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. BushPeople are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
Madeleine AlbrightThe 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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower