Bill Maher Quotes

President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'

Her coming here has meant more than anything else President Nixon could have done.

We are ready to deal with any President [of U.S], but of course, and I mentioned that, it depends on the readiness of the future Administration.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh - meets America's president. It's like President "Who?" meeting President "Huh?"

I didn't say I would cut off all communication with [Vladimir] Putin. What I said was as president of the United States, now is not the time to talk with him.

Take a look at the way that Trump has described some of the foreign countries that we deal with - some that are allies and some that are not. China is one example. He said they were currency manipulators, but after he sat down with President Xi and had a piece of chocolate cake, he then said they were no longer currency manipulators.

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I wasn't going to be the pilot fish to the shark, whereas Australia quite happily bobbed along like a happy little pilot fish with a shark who was a messy eater, and I just couldn't feel like that.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

Our allies and enemies, and Mr. Wilson himself, should all understand that Mr. Wilson has no authority to speak for the American people.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.

Ralph Bunche has been working as an agent of the International Communist Conspiracy for more than two decades.

When I was UN ambassador, the French were monitoring me.

My husband will tell you one of the most frequent questions he gets from world leaders is, 'How's your wife's garden?'

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.

I do believe that it's very frequent that officials from foreign governments will meet with members of Congress. They will meet with folks associated with campaigns. That's not aberrational here in Washington.

Personal relations were critical to the success of dad's diplomacy all across the world during his presidency.

When PM goes for a foreign visit, he represents a country and not the party.

Netanyahu must mend fences with Obama.

Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.