Dan Coats Quotes

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

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.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

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

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.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

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

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

More and more countries, mostly all countries, do not want large American forces on their soil. That’s a reality. We can live in the denial of that, but we are also living in the reality of that.

… international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.