Quotes About International

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter Niro the jazz pianist. I loved international music: Irish music, Mexican music. I love the different colours that they all have.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

China should be America's primary national security focus going forward.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

The country's image has improved ten-fold during Vajpayee's prime ministership.

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

I had a very good relationship with President Bill Clinton when I was prime minister.

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

When I addressed international forums as prime minister, the Israeli people expected me to present bold political initiatives that would bring peace - not arguments outlining why achieving peace now is not possible.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in Egypt.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

Ensuring the respect of international humanitarian law and principles is one of the key areas necessary to establish accountability chains.

The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.