Catherine Ashton Quotes

Foreign policy does not mean guns and rifles, but utilizing all legitimate international means to convince others.

Diplomacy and coalition-building are hard work and not easy for any president.

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

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

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

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

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

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

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

And we ought to work our diplomacy first and I think it's a reason it's going to respond increasingly to our diplomacy particularly with the president's direct involvement in the peace process, and I think that's extraordinarily important.

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

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

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.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Diplomacy and force are two sides of the same coin.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... It brings us into very dangerous territory and it could be used and abused by any other country. We need to continue to base our security on multilateralism, and on the Security Council.

Public diplomacy, practiced in harmony with traditional diplomacy, will enable us to advance our interest, to protect our security, and to continue to provide the moral basis for our leadership in the world.

Americans must reconcile themselves to limited objectives and work in congress with others, for an essential part of American power is the ability to evoke support from others---an ability quite as important as the capacity to compel.