Quotes About Diplomacy

There is a good supply of Russia experts out there - people who have lived there with lots of good experience - but the demand has just not been there from government.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya.

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

I've always been a huge supporter of the only democracy in the Middle East.

I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.

The Catholic Church played an integral role in supporting the opening between the U.S. and Cuban governments.

I grew up feeling Israel is very important, and I'm very supportive of Israel. At the same time, I think you can be really supportive of Israel and not look at it as a black-and-white situation.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

I believe that the U.S. is the strongest country in the whole world and the country that supports Israel the most. I believe that it has the strength to push Israel towards peace.

Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

As president, I'm not supposed to play games or show my hand, because there's a lot going on behind the scenes that you don't see or hear and don't need to know.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.