Quotes About Diplomacy

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to the long isolation period until Deng Xiaoping's times.

Football is a relatively small industry and there are times, while you want to be honest, that it is best to pull a few punches. You never know, you might need to work with that person again.

Political pundits in Delhi and Islamabad have berated the West for its relativism and double-standards. After all why should Britain have a nuclear arsenal but not India? It is a reasonable question.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

At the very least, Secretary Clinton should publicly call for the unequivocal release of Saeed Abedini.

My goal is to be the tough negotiator but... not to air differences through press releases.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

The U.S. is not the holder of truth.

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

The U.K. is at the heart of intelligence gathering with our allies to call out hostile activity.

I have a hostile country on my western border. On the north of us, we have China. These two countries are going to collude.

Donald Trump is right. We need to figure out a way to end this cycle of hostility that's putting this country at risk, costing us billions of dollars in defense, and creating hostility that should not exist.

We have Russia, on a serial basis, abusing Interpol... The moral of this story is that if a country wants to abuse Interpol they can just keep abusing Interpol and it doesn't really matter how many times they do it.

If Narendra Modi can hug Nawaz Sharif then what is wrong in Hardik Patel meeting me?

Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.