Donald Trump Quotes

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

The United States has many great diplomats, but there is truly no better ambassador for our country than our beautiful First Lady, Melania. Thank you, Melania.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

I am in regular contact with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe. We have met several times this year [2016].

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.

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

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

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government.

Ambassadors are the eyes and ears of states.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

The major role of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is not legislative; it is educational.

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

We have normal relations with lots of countries whose leadership we do not like..

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

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

Since when is it against the law to meet with people from another country?