Quotes About Foreign relations

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

We must apply the same standards to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt that we apply to Iran, Russia and Syria.

Imagine if you were asked by your country to be an ambassador to an enemy nation. You would probably have to learn a new language and adapt to some customs and cultural differences in order to be polite and accomplish your mission. As an ambassador you would not be able to isolate yourself from the enemy. To fulfill your mission, you would have to have contact and relate to them.

For how can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Auch wenn zwei Staaten in Deutschland existieren, sind sie doch füreinander nicht Ausland; ihre Beziehungen zueinander können nur von besonderer Art sein." ("Even though two states in Germany exist, they are not foreign countries to each other—their relations with each other can only be of a special kind.") First Inaugural Address as West German Chancellor, October 28, 1969

It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

Iran is not about building nuclear weapons. We don't wanna build nuclear weapons. We don't believe that nuclear weapons bring security to anybody, certainly not to us.

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

It's OK to criticize Israeli policy.

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.

That Obama creature - loathsome individual - he couldn't stand our country.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places.

Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.

As a presidential candidate, Trump continued working on a plan to build in Russia.

That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.