Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

If we were able to see people in other countries and learn about our differences, why would there be any misunderstandings? War would be a thing of the past.

We all should respect Chris Stevens, who dedicated his life to trying to improve relations between the Arab world and the western world.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.'

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.