Bob Filner Quotes

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.

I mean, on one hand Rex Tillerson is correct, there are no plans to change the One China policy. But certainly that policy is on the table if China doesn't also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the South China Sea on what's happening there.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

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

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'

Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.

I don't believe in ideology in international relations.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

Many in China find it perplexing that the U.S. and Russian perceptions are still so heavily influenced by the Cold War.

In a sensitive matter, where its own ignorance could scarcely have been greater, Congress would have been better advised to leave the conduct of foreign policy in the hands of those who have been constitutionally charged with it.

Clearly, for France in her present position, intelligent activity consists of practicing a policy of entente with Germany in order to survive

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

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

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

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

Now what do the Chinese Communists want? They don’t want Quemoy and Matsu. They don’t want just Formosa. They want the world.