Fahd Quotes

We have to review our foreign policy and stop rolling out the red carpet for countries we know to be funding fundamentalism: countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.

No nation has friends only interests.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

Small countries such as Belgium would be well-advised to rally to the side of the strong if the wish to retain their independence.

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

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

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

The premise of Russian foreign policy to the West is that the rule of law is one big joke; the practice of Russian foreign policy is to find prominent people in the West who agree.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.