Barack Obama Quotes

Russia is not our friend.

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

Russia is not our friend.

If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Neutrality is not like a simple mathematical formula which has only to be announced and demonstrated in order to be believed and respected. It has in fact always been one of the difficult problems …. Instead of earning the respect and goodwill of both belligerents it is regarded by both with hatred and contempt.

Why do we give money to people who hate us?

We send billions of taxpayer dollars abroad and what do we get in return? Disrespect, disdain, and ultimately violence.

Nations drift into wars.

We can deal with Iran if it is a nation but not if it is a cause.

When a rising power confronts a ruling power, bad things usually happen.... This is what happens when an extablished entity faces an upstart.... To avoid a disasterous clash like war, both parties have to make an adjustment, but the ruling power has to make more painful adjustments.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

What I was saying is that Israel cannot count on the United States.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

I only find out where countries are when we start bombing them.

You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?