Quotes About Diplomacy

There are very few things I've ever been a part of that I believe in more than the Iran deal, and everything I said I believe to be true, and I was trying to make a case about the facts.

At face value, the U.S. Congress, there is a - they have a long way to go before they fully appreciate and understand Iranian people.

There is no shortage of objectionable Iranian behavior.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable.

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe.

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

There is no getting around the reality that the second Iraq war was a war of choice; had it been carried out differently, it still would have been an expensive choice and almost certainly a bad one.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

I think I'm one of the people who brought about peace in Ireland.

There are many things we can do with Scotland and, indeed, with others which would be hugely beneficial to both Scotland and to Ireland, so I'm absolutely up for all of that.

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

We have seen at first hand that upholding the Good Friday Agreement while also avoiding a hard border in Ireland is the key to unblocking the Brexit logjam.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

It would be irresponsible for me to comment on somebody else's opinions.