Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

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

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

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

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

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.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

If America could get along with Russia - and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

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.

Isolationism is over.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.