Quotes About Diplomacy

First and foremost, the United States did not ratify the 1998 Rome Statute that founded the ICC. Successive administrations have stood by that decision and, as a result, American citizens are not subject to ICC jurisdiction.

But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican, has stood closely with Israel.

Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it - and by the strong principles he stood for.

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

I think president after president has always stood behind Israel. We always will. They're our ally there. And we have to do whatever we can help them to protect their citizens.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

Democrats have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel since its founding.

I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

I'm too blunt and straightforward for politics, but I'm friends with all.

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

It was in the first Abe administration that we started the mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests between Japan and China.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

We may be a little bit late - we are late - coming to the recognition that we are in a strategic competition with China.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.