Henry Paulson Quotes

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

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

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.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

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.

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.

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

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.

Countries in Asia - Singapore, certainly, but many other countries too - are good friends to both China and America, and we would like to be good friends with both.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.