Martin Schulz Quotes

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

I won't let any ambassador have a say about my foreign travels.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly.

When in the course of European diplomacy it becomes necessary for one people to let another dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a third, and to assume among the powers of the earth the desperate and unequal station to which the will of an International Congress condemns them, a decent respect to the cannon of their protectors requires that they should say nothing about the causes which compel them to accept the situation.

The President being the only channel of communication between this country and foreign nations, it is from him alone that foreign nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation....

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government.

The Emperor has the option to communicate with the help of the Italian government for all matters that he wants with the kings of Europe. [Aramaic Version] The Emperor consents to use the Italian government for all the business he does with all the other Powers or Governments. [Italian Version]

Tell the Arch-Duchess that she may boss her own immigrants, but she can't boss the American consul.

No state, without the Consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state;

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.

Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Netanyahu, imagine a president who stands unapologetically with the nation of Israel.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton. That's documented throughout her emails.

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was a fresh concept. At the time, it was widely ridiculed as a dangerous alteration of US policy. Only after it worked was Reagan's dangerous foreign policy recast as merely a continuation of the policies of his predecessors.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.