Ehud Barak Quotes

Our geographical position wills it that we have Germany for a neighbor.

The United States is lucky: It has only two neighboring countries and oceans on both sides. We have over a dozen neighboring countries and we have a long and complicated history with them.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U.S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. ... When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.

...In practice it is found that International Law is always on the side of strong battalions...It is puerile...to apply to the dealings of a nation with its neighbor's territory the morality which would be applicable to two individuals possessing adjoining property, and protected from mutual wrong by a law superior to both.

Borders most often result from wars or peace treaties that end wars.

Borders cannot be redrawn in blood.

The only thing that is worse than dealing with Pakistan is the neglect of doing so.

I'd like to move Israel to the northern border of Mexico and see what happens then.

Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

Maybe some Ukrainians would like to have Sweden or Canada for a neighbor, but we have Russia.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

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.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

Poor Wilson did not understand that a frontier which is not defended with bayonets, force and honor cannot be secured by any other principle.

Let the king consider as hostile his immediate neighbor and the enemy of such a foe, as friendly.

Bad neighbors will keep cartographers busy well into the next century.

We are not now a country of Africa but a country of Europe.