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

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

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don’t know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they’re developing what’s called ‚nuclear capability,‘ which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That’s not a crime.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

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

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

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

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Law is always better than war.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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.

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.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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

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

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.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

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

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

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.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

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

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 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?‘

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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.

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

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

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

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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

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 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.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.