Mike Pence Quotes

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

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

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

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

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.

No nation has friends only interests.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

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.