N. Chandrababu Naidu Quotes

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

When you go to war, you have to build bipartisan support and then you have to sustain it.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

I built Kosovo for 10 years.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The best war is the one that doesn’t have to be fought, and the best military is the one capable and versatile enough to deter the next war in the first place.

The war power of the national government is not only the power to fight, but the power to wage war successfully

If you can secure peace, you may be cursed by a lot of hotheads but … you will be blessed in Europe and by future generations

An attitude of letting the rest of the world stew in their own juice, is rather a dangerous one, that perhaps in our own interest we may have to take the initiative and have sufficient interest in other people's affairs to really want to help them remain at peace.

Being a wartime President is never just about leading the war. It is also about leading a nation at war.

[Martin Luther] King has no competence to speak about complex matters of foreign policy…. It is nothing short of arrogance when Dr. King takes it upon himself to thus undermine the policies of the United States ….

We learned once for all [from the Civil War] that compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; that it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.