Yoshihide Suga Quotes

Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.

We do not want to tie ourselves ... to the United States, because she is unreliable ... and her statesmen do not know the mind of their own country.

Foreign policy is not philanthropy.

Politics stops at the water's edge

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.

American national security and American economic interests, of course - every president, every secretary of state - that is the primary goal. As you are in this job and in the work, you begin to see, though, that in the long run, both American economic interests and American national security are better served when there are other decent countries in the world who are both your allies and even when your adversaries are acting more decently.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

No nation has friends only interests.

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.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

It is important that we get our people back, but your greater responsibility is to protect the honor and dignity of our country and its foreign policy interests.