Brit Hume Quotes

There is a lot of juggling between NATO commitment and domestic politics in most countries [belonging to NATO.]

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

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

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.

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

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.

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.

NATO is indispensable to America's national security.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

We always have to remember that we, the Italians, have always cooperated with the U.S., and with Reagan and Carter and Nixon and Clinton, Bush and Obama. And Trump, Trump is the American-elected president. So, cooperation is there.

We know that Russia has done things that are very much against our interests. They've done things that require us to take punitive action against Russia. That does not mean we can't work with Russia where we have a common agenda. Russia is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council; we need their help in isolating North Korea and their nuclear weapons violations. So, we still need to work with Russia. But Russia's done things that are contrary to our national security interest, and the US must respond to those types of activities.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Isolationism is over.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

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

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.