Quotes About International

Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

The Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended

You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

The common wish of the international community is for peace instead of war.