Thomas Ken Quotes

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

We must settle our accounts with great and superpowers, and show them that we can take on the whole world ideology, despite all the painful problems that face us.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

Soft power … cannot accomplish much in the absence of a willingness to use hard power.

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.

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Great powers engage.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Weak countries always exaggerate their power.

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.