Steve Hilton Quotes

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

In the affairs of nations, too much hard power ends up breeding not submission but resistance. Likewise great soft power does not bend hearts; it twists minds in resentment and rage.

What happens in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea has a greater impact on us than most events in Massachusetts.

Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China - from Chinese banks - whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we're going to have to face.

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

Anyone who understands the rudiments of politics doesn't say, 'We will stop Iran's oil exports'... we have been the guarantor of the regional waterway's security throughout history.

The days that Israel was separated from Europe are gone.

The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

I'm against lifting any sanctions on the Russians.

The U.S. is so important to me, Europe is important.

I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China.

China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.

Sanctions work over time. They do work, but it takes years for them to have an effect.

To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on individual nations around the world. From Australia to Germany, South Africa to South Korea, political leaders are careful not to rub China the wrong way.

We have always argued that attempts to isolate Belarus, like other countries, lead to a dead end. In this situation, everyone loses.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

If necessary, we will have to strengthen sanctions even further, but the goal of sanctions must be to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.

Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.