Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes

In the 21st century, we can't create security by building walls.

Coming from a smaller nation in Central Europe, I have learned pretty soon how important are agreed rules, cooperation, respect for partners and, most of all, willingness to listen and find common solutions.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals, as people, as persons.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

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.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on, and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

The partnerships between Schmidt and Giscard, Kohl and Mitterrand, and even between Chirac and Schroeder, have proved that political differences do not mean that we cannot work together.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

There will never be peace unless we have open borders. But that does not mean open on our side and you continue to hit me on the other.