Quotes About Diplomacy

American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Israel and the United States have been locked in a mutually necessary and beneficial intelligence-sharing relationship for more than 60 years.

I was ranked the fifth most bipartisan freshman when I went to Congress, and I think that my motto really is, 'Agree where you can and fight where you must.'

I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have no heart to shed Filipino blood.

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.

At least Russia and China didn't call us names when we smiled sweetly at America.

I've known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

We don't want to fight NASCAR.

You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.

I may interrupt people or be nasty, but I am never rude. So every interview starts with a shake of a hand and ends with a shake of a hand.

I think you can be in disagreement with a president you support without being disrespectful or nasty or snide.

As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.

Japan is not going to do anything with any country that harms the national interest.