Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Much of the relationship between the peoples of two countries has nothing to do with treaties or pieces of paper exchanged by people like me.

We have normal relations with lots of countries whose leadership we do not like..

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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