Lee Myung-bak Quotes

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

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

I'd like to build stable relationships with neighboring countries including China and Russia.

Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

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

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

Alliances do have to deal with political realities.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

I should drag in the United States.

While pursuing its own interests, a country should accommodate the legitimate interests of others.

This is not our choice but this is the law of the politics. You always reciprocate. Positively, negatively, but this is something which you cannot change. It was not invented by us. It is the law of international relations.

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

The most important relationship in the world is the U. S. - China relationship.

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

Countries in Asia - Singapore, certainly, but many other countries too - are good friends to both China and America, and we would like to be good friends with both.

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.