Quotes About Foreign relations

France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.

The history of Iranian foreign investment in the past, their terms were always quite challenging, quite difficult.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

As women politicians, we talk about the most difficult themes of state security, foreign relations and development models, then ask, 'How do you make it work with your husband?' The interesting thing is that these women - most of them - don't lose the perspective that the focus is not the position but the job at hand.

Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

the Spanish ambassador in England, Guzman de Silva, reported to Philip II

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

Listen, every time we're meeting with our counterparts in Israel, the state of Iran is always something that's at the top of the list and the things we discuss. And that's because the regime in Iran continually threatens Israel, threatens the United States.

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.

Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I've talked to so many people, so many institutions, about how China works.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

India always wants good, friendly relations with its neighbours and continues with its policy of not disturbing anyone. But if someone fires at us first, we will not count the retaliatory bullets.

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.