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

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

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

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

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

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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

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

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

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 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 can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining 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?

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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 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.

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.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

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

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

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.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

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.

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.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

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

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

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.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

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

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.

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

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

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.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.