Kathleen Sebelius Quotes

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

Great powers engage.

Trust between allies is as important as deterrence of foes.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

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

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

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

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

With respect to Euro-Atlantic integration, we have to realize that we need to normalize the relationships with our neighbors, and especially with Russia.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.