Quotes About Diplomacy

India should demand an international watch on ISI.

The world wants to know - is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly that it's democratic.

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.

American influence in the world depends on the ability to act with real capacity and set an example that others will want to follow. This all takes resources.

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure that we treat water the way it deserves.

We must modernize our greatest deterrent and keep peace among our adversaries with our nuclear arsenal.

The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind.

I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.

I think it's always in order to engage in constructive dialogue, even when you may not get any results.

My relationship with Virat is not dictated by political situation. Virat is a fantastic human being and an ambassador of cricket for his country, just like I am for my country.

Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.

We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is that Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns.

The targets of George W. Bush's 'axis of evil' speech were not Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Those regimes don't need a State of the Union address to know where they stand with the Bush administration. The intended audience was elsewhere: in France, Russia and China.

To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.