Erin O'Toole Quotes

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

One of the great power’s intents in granting trade concessions and inducements or taking a hard line toward another state is to enable a favorable foreign policy coalition abroad or disable an unfavorable coalition.

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

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

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

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.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

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.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

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.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

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

While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.

China and India's relationship is gradually developing.

China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

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

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

We think that something has to be done against the United States…. When you do something to the United States they are going to retaliate. But the United States is not as powerful as it's made out to be.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

Commercial interests survive longer than strategic interests. When countries do business together, they stay together.

I think that we should have a very serious discussion about defunding the United nations… Why should we be paying for the UN?

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.