James E. Cartwright Quotes

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

The stationing of U. S. troops abroad on a permanent basis in foreign military installations is the kind of thing that should not be done without the approval of the Senate.

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 U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

Making China strong is the only way to ensure that foreign countries will not start a conflict with us … of look down on us.

Why don’t you ask us to grant you bases?

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

The United States has become geopolitically hobbled seemingly interested in grand strategic initiatives or transformative diplomacy, as its attention constantly dances from one crisis to another.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us an ally. The current president, Xi Jinping, cultivates close relations with South Korea. He has never met with me, the leader of North Korea, something that the leader of China has always done. At the grand celebrations in Beijing two years ago commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, he placed the president of Russia and the president of South Korea at his side. In North Korea, we pay a lot of attention to ceremonies and what they signal.

For the Russians, frankly, it's time that we punched the Russians in the nose. They've gotten away with too much in this world and we need to stand up against them, not just there, but also in Eastern Europe where they threaten some of our most precious allies.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

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

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

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

No nation has friends only interests.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.