George W. Bush Quotes

The United States is destined to have a special relationship with Mexico as clear and as strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

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.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Today’s fear mongering about international crime frequently relies on dire warnings about “broken borders”. But those who claim that U. S. borders are out of control now forget that those borders were never effectively controlled in the first place. In fact, the United States has always had highly permeable borders. Border smuggling has defined the U. S. Mexican economic relationship from the start; the same is true of the U. S. Canadian relationship.

It's hard to envision a future of the United States of America that does not include Mexico.

I'm resolved to be active on diplomacy as Japan further develops relationships based on trust and cooperation with countries including the U.S.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

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.

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

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

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

I’ve had foreign policy experience as governor of Texas—with Mexico.

It seems to me to matter little whether you have an alliance which is committed to paper, or whether you have an understanding in the minds of the statesmen of the respective countries.

Never in all the long years of strife and struggle has a parliamentary conduct of international affairs been successful.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.

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.

lot of the uneasiness among Mexican leaders is because of the unknowns. Well those are to be determined and to be discussed and to be negotiated. At the end of the day, our neighborss aren't going anywhere and neigher are we, and we need to find ways to make it work.