Richard Nixon Quotes

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

What happens in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea has a greater impact on us than most events in Massachusetts.

Everything in the Middle East is connected to everything else

Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle — that's my map of Africa.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

A new multipolar world has brought more uncertainty into international affairs.

I believe some of the tensions the U.S. has had with Russia and that the Europeans have had with Russia... China is taking advantage of some of those dealings.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.

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

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Great powers engage.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

Europe is perhaps the first example in history of a non-dominant world power.

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

For the 30 years I have been involved with U. S. national security, our policy has been shaped by the assumption that we could shape other countries’ policies throughout the world. This has always been a bit of a myth.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

When it comes to its role in the world, Russia is in the throes of an identity crisis. It has neither fully integrated into the liberal order nor built its own viabile alternative,

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.