Tony Blair Quotes

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

American political leaders need to take a cold shower of humility: we do not always know what is best for other people, even when we think it is their interests we have in mind.

There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Foreign policy matters cannot be intelligently decided in a large general meeting.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

... American temptation to beleive that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

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

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

You can't wing foreign policy.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W.] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.

What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.

I often speak with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When I speak with the Turkish president, I defend European positions. That is how we European partners must do things.

We have seen very clearly over these past years that there are quite a few people who are sceptical, or let us put it another way, are cautious about the development of Russian-American relations, but the underlying fundamental interests of the United States and Russia demand that our relations be normalised.