Quotes About Cooperation

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Conversations with my counterparts in Europe have made clear that many of them recognize NATO's limitations and understand the need for reform.

If Donald Trump wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform, I will work with Donald Trump.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

We need to work with the other countries in the hemisphere so that they also have refugee policies in place so that people have a place to go and can escape the violence in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.

I have the highest regard for the police forces.

Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.

At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with - regardless of what they've done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it - that's what it's really about.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.

Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia.

We are not facing China alone; we are facing China together with a lot of other people in the region.

We will work constructively with China as we always have. Our futures are very much intertwined in the region.

The ASEAN is located at the center of the Indo-Pacific region and is critical for achieving a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.