Barack Obama Quotes

We have to establish a joint strategy on other issues, such as Iran and North Korea, but also on climate change. That's why I think it is important to speak at length with the American president Donald Trump and show him a path forward for possible cooperation. I feel an obligation to do so.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

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

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

Though the euphoria surrounding Barack Obama's election last week as President-elect has not yet begun to subside, it is already time to recognise that the most important challenge facing the next U.S. president is to restore America's standing in the eyes of the world.

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.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

The United States … has never been isolated, never can be isolated, and has no desire to be isolated. The people of the United States are not only ready but willing and desirous to help their fellow-men, especially those of western civilization, in any way that is possible.

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

Isolationism is not leadership.

I'm resolved to be active on diplomacy as Japan further develops relationships based on trust and cooperation with countries including the U.S.

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends.

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

It's better to get along with Russia than not.

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.