Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

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.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

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

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

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.

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.

I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

How can we expect other nations to respect our law if we don't respect theirs?

We especially ought to pray that the powers of Europe be so poised and counterpoised among themselves that their own security may require the presence of all their forces at home leaving the other parts of the world in undisturbed tranquility.

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

A strong Germany is an indispensable condition for a durable peace in Europe.

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