Matt Gaetz Quotes

Japan is running an ongoing political campaign in America as if it were a third major party.

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.

When I was UN ambassador, the French were monitoring me.

I meet with ambassadors from all countries in my role as a member of Congress, and you always have better relationships with those you actually personally get along with. That matters. So if there is chemistry between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, maybe that can bode for something.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

When the ambassadors of other foreign countries come to Japan to make treaties, they can be told that such and such a treaty has been made with the ambassador of the United States, and they will rest satisfied with this.

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Our allies and enemies, and Mr. Wilson himself, should all understand that Mr. Wilson has no authority to speak for the American people.

If you operate any kind of major diplomacy, you must run some risk.

The limits of diplomacy must be acknowledged.

Entangling alliances have been considered worse than original sin since George Washington.

If we start seeing one ambassador I don’t know how we’re going to avoid seeing the other 113 …. I don’t see what mileage we get in seeing 80 African ambassadors.

No state, without the Consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state;

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

[President George. W.] Bush has alienated every friend that we've made over the last 200 years with his arrogance and indifference.

Her coming here has meant more than anything else President Nixon could have done.

Criticizing presidents for weakess is standard in Washington because the world is a messy place and when bad things happen, Washington and the President can easily be blamed for them.

I did not have any private meetings nor do I recall any conversations with any Russian officials at the Mayflower Hotel.

As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.

It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.

Personal relations were critical to the success of dad's diplomacy all across the world during his presidency.