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Quotes About Relations

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
~ Kim Jong Il
Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.
~ Martin Van Buren
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
~ Golda Meir
The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
~ Peter Ustinov
In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.
~ Richard Glover
Our bilateral relations are very good, they're very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.
~ Angela Merkel
What I'm doing is good for the United States. It's also going to be good for Mexico.
~ Donald Trump
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
~ George Washington
The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.
~ Thaksin Shinawatra
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
~ George Washington
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.
~ J. Stalin
Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.
~ Sadako Ogata
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
~ Robert Menzies
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
~ Luc de Clapiers
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.
~ Joichi Ito
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
~ Kenneth Waltz
It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
~ Freida Pinto
My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.
~ Alexander Vassiliev
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
~ George Eliot, Adam Bede
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
~ Ernest Bevin