Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.

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

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

Saudi Arabia is an important country to the United States.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

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.

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.

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

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

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

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

It is dangerous to permit conscienceless party politics to proceed to a point which does not hesitate to drag foreign politics and relations to a point with a great neighboring country into the vortex of partisan strife.

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.

Isn’t it clear that the British government has no policy of our own in Iraq and that we are totally dependent on the policy of the United States?

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

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.

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.