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

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

Unlike 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.

Law is always better than war.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

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.

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

Saddam’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.

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

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

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.

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.

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

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.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

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

The U.N. charter bars the threat of force.

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.

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.

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

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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.

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.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

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

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

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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