Quotes About Diplomacy

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

Japan and South Korea are two of America's greatest trading partners and home to important U.S. military bases.

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations.

We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

We treat China as a normal trading and economic partner.

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

If people get together, so eventually will nations.

We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

Why in general, when you're putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you're looking for someone there who is not someone who's going to be heavy-handed.

Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'