Bulent Ecevit Quotes

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

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

China remains too important for America's national security to risk the relationship on the emotions of the moment.... No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied by tens of thousands of demonstrators.

My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable.

After globalisation, one country can't destabilise another country, as the international community will not forget it.

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.

As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ours. I saw that it was impossible she could stand as an independent power between us and Mexico without becoming the scene of intrigue of foreign powers, alike destructive of the peace and security of both Texas and ourselves.

Foreign interventions always end badly.

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

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