Quotes About Diplomacy

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

I will not support any peace deal that will allow the return of even one Palestinian refugee to Israel.

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.

Dad's astute knowledge of foreign policy impressed Gorbachev during the time of the Berlin Wall when Dad refused to gloat during the reunification of Germany.

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

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

You don't lose the regard of not only a nation but of an international community and regain it overnight.

When public figures write memoirs, there is always some indecision regarding how much they want to write of things as they were and how much they want to cut corners to avoid riling up others. I decided to write my memoirs exactly as they were, and I will not digress - not when things are ill at ease and not when they are comfortable.

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

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.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of peacekeeping missions around the world.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

What we wanted to tell North Korea is, look, we have told you we are not looking for regime change; we are not looking for war. But don't give us a reason to get involved in any of this, and so we're going to go ahead and push for a strong resolution against North Korea.

One of the things we need to do with North Korea, which is a rogue nation, is to get the international community in support of further sanctions, of keeping pressure on the North Korean regime.

I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.