Warren Christopher Quotes

Trade is part of our national security.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia must be first of all a Czechoslovak, then a European, and then a world policy.

The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

The foreign policies of Japan in the past half-century revolved around two pivotal points. The one was security and the other equality.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations more secure, meaning our commitments overseas also makes us stronger and safer here at home.

China is not an economic enemy or existential national security threat to the United States.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

Much has changed since the end of the Cold War that augurs well for the survival of our nation.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.