Quotes About International

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

We should be working with the governor of Sonora to establish a commercial sea port on the coast of their state.

Jaspal Bhatti saab was the one who uplifted the image of Sikhs on the national and international stage. There used to be a lot of satire on Sikhs earlier. A guy wearing a turban was portrayed as a joke, but since Bhatti saab entered cinema he changed the entire perspective and idiom of Sardar jokes.

We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

Russians in top positions always told me, 'We don't want to deal with our allies the way that the Americans dealt with Mubarak,' which is a very live example in the minds of many.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K.

For cyclone-proof energy infrastructure, we would definitely explore all possibilities, including international support.

I don't see any possibility of peace if there won't be open borders between us and our neighbors.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

Post globalisation, the debate has been, 'How much more are we going to liberalise?'

I think international is a place that, actually, The Huffington Post and AOL have started to make moves in.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

My dad is Japanese; he was an art director there. My mom is half-English, half-Argentinian. They met in Japan in the '70s. Her parents were diplomats posted there.