Quotes About International

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis, it's just not true anymore.

For me Japan was my dream and the WWE was my goal, so making it to the WWE and actually standing in that ring for the first time in front of millions of people nationally and tens of millions of people internationally, I was there, I was at the show! it was so real, that's the best way I can describe it.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

Our Cuba policy was a major obstacle to getting things done in the hemisphere and a source of tension around the world.

China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

Our experience is that it is not terribly difficult to do business in China. But the issue is, how much stability do you have in terms of what you negotiate up front and when you've got your feet and your investments on the ground.

Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with them.

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

We will do business with the Chinese - but we will not hand our territory over to anybody!

The Senkaku Islands are an integral part of Japanese territory based on international law as well as in the context of our history.

In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.

I'm hugely delighted with the presence of U.S. Armed Forces in the Polish territory.

We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.

I have never been affected by terror, but here in Iran, I have never felt any ill will toward me - the opposite, actually.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.