Quotes About Relations

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

You want to get something changed, you send sport. Look what happened when Pee Wee Reese puts his arm around Jackie Robinson. That did more for racial relations in the United States through sport.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

Belarus is not the Middle East. The policies of Belarussian and Middle Eastern leaders are cardinally different from one another.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

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

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

I don't want to pose either with Obama or with Merkel.

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.

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

We are trying to work around the world. We would like very much to cooperate with the United States.

It is an ambitious agenda, but the approach to Russia should be, 'Confront where we must, but cooperate where we can.'

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

I've never been against doing business with Cuba.

Doing business with Cuba is good for America.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are like those of a family.

When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.