Quotes About Global relations

If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Many Americans nowadays maintain that their government has a moral imperative to bring Third World countries the benefits of democracy and human rights, even if these goods are delivered by cruise missiles and F-16s. The

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

are driving people in the Muslim world into the arms of these militant groups. We are the most hated nation on earth," wrote Hedges.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

The political climate in Washington always pushes policymakers toward being "tough" rather than "soft"—which is a dangerous way to frame international affairs. The real question is, can they be smart rather than stupid?

I was elected prime minister in 2014 under incredibly difficult circumstances: A third of the country was overrun by terrorists, the economy was struggling, people were divided by sectarianism, and relations with the wider world were strained.

If you really want to wreck Russia, encourage them to try and swallow Ukraine. That's like swallowing a porcupine.

We must face the fact that international relations are governed by interests and not by moral principles.

Like the Chinese, the Japanese see international politics as hierarchical because their domestic politics are.

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.