Nicholas Soames Quotes

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

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

Trust between allies is as important as deterrence of foes.

Just as we protect California, so shall we protect Japan.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

For any country - and that includes Mexico and the U.S. - having good, robust relationships with crucial allies and neighbors, that's putting your country first.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I'd like to build stable relationships with neighboring countries including China and Russia.

We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

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.

I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.