Theresa May Quotes

I want to give [Donald Trump] a very clear picture of the UK. Also, I believe what will come out of this is a very clear determination on both sides not just to maintain the special relationship but also to build it for the future. There is a real role for the UK and the US working together.

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States of America. The UK and the US have shared challenges, shared interests, that we can work together to deal with. We have a special relationship, it's longstanding, it's existed through many different prime ministers and presidents. I want to build on that relationship.

What's going to be important is having the opportunity to actually sit down with President [Donald] Trump and talk to him face to face, about the interests we share, about the special relationship, about the joint challenges we both face. Talking about the future of NATO is one of the issues we will discuss.

I do respect Donald Trump. And I think he has a very strong view in terms of security. And we are very strong allies and we work very closely together in Middle East and in order to fight against terrorism. But we didn't agree on two to three issues, and the very first one was on climate. And what it told me is that I took a commitment vis-à-vis my voters. And I told them it was not good for the U.S. and especially the U.S. workers. I tried to convince them. I do believe that on the mid- to long-run it's not true. And I do believe it's important to have on board the U.S. government.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

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

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

The United States is destined to have a special relationship with Mexico as clear and as strong as we have had with Canada and Great Britain.

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

I do not applaud our quitting the League [of Nations]. The people act as if by withdrawing we have achieved something great …. This shows the shallowness of thought of the Japanese public.

The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia must be first of all a Czechoslovak, then a European, and then a world policy.

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

Between countries -- regardless of whether they are democratic or authoritarian -- there will need to be an explanation, either for publics or for powerful constituencies

[To Americans] diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interwar period, appeasement of Fascism.