global affairs quotes

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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.

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

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