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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

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

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

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

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.

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

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration’s militancy and aggressiveness.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

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.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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 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.

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

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

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

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

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?‘

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.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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.

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.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

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