Evan McMullin Quotes

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning.

Diplomacy without military capability is nothing more than prayer.

You can't get a diplomatic solution unless behind that, is the threat of force.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

The best war is the one that doesn’t have to be fought, and the best military is the one capable and versatile enough to deter the next war in the first place.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

It is not important what the other side says or means. What is important are the military capabilities of the other side.

We do not want war with Iran.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

Great powers engage.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.