Anthony Eden Quotes

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

We sit there because there is a war going on. But once we have peace we don’t want to be sitting on your Suez Canal.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

No two men ever devised plans of action to accomplish a particular object without finding that there were differences in their plans. That is peculiarly the case in international affairs.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

I don't think a country needs to bypass diplomacy, they don't need to attack us under the radar.

Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

We've seen what happened in Libya, what a disaster that's been driven by Hillary Clinton, and the disaster in Syria and almost disaster in Egypt. What a close call that's been. We're not out of the woods yet with Egypt.

If you study the behavior or the attitude of Syria, Iran, and U.S., you understand that these three countries can't come to terms with each other.

Keeping his face clean over Watergate was one of Kissinger's biggest successes; so was his overall handling of the Yom Kippur War.

I do think it's fair to say that there are times when President Obama has not been engaged enough with the Middle East.

As the United States Congress considers military intervention in Syria, per President Obama's request, I think it's important to be very honest about what we are considering.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

Syria is a problem, but Iran is a bigger problem.

I think there are some instances where U.S. security is threatened by rogue regimes, by foreign dictators, and there are some instances where liberating nations helps to restore our security.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

Our adversaries must see diplomacy as their best option because war with the United States will force them to bear enormous costs.

There are some issues where we have common interests with Germany, there are some others that we don't... The diplomacy between good neighbors doesn't mean nodding one to another.