Quotes About Relations

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

For all their worshipful attention to Americans and American machinery, the French didn't like them much.

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.

Here I am patching up relations between the men of the future and the men of the past, returning, with apologies, a body we have sucked dry-a go-between, a jackal of Empire in sheep's clothing!

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

If any country deserves American support, Ukraine does.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

The majority of decisions in Europe are done by unanimity. That's why it is important to be to have good relations with all parts.

As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.

Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.

It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

gender and power relations have been central to theoretical frameworks that attempt to understand prostitution

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.