Kersti Kaljulaid Quotes

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome.

I will be greatly pleased if the venture capitalists you have referred to would come here and invest part of their wealth in industrial enterprise, extending by that means the bonds of fraternity between the two republics and linking their identities by means of the same democratic institutions.

I often heard the same question: What place does Russia reserve for itself in the world; how does it see itself; what is its place? We are a peace-loving state and we want to cooperate with all of our neighbors and with all of our partners.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

You too would prefer that Russia maintained good relations with both the United Kingdom and the United States, wouldn't you? I would prefer it as well. If anybody in the U.S. or in the United Kingdom says: "I would like to establish good partnership relations with Russia", then both of us, you and me, should welcome that. So should people like me and people like you. However, we have no idea yet what would actually happen after the elections [2016]. That is why I am telling you that we will work with any President designated as such by the American public.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

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

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

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

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

Gifts [concessions] to rising powers are rarely reciprocated. Mostly, they are just pocketed.

It's hard to envision a future of the United States of America that does not include Mexico.