Lawrence Eagleburger Quotes

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

For the whole of Western Europe, I know the business community quite good.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.

Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Brazil has cast a firebrand into Europe

What is the greatest of our common obligations? It is Imperial defense. What is the greatest of our common interests? It is Imperial trade.

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.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

The term “public diplomacy” is often a euphemism for propaganda.

used as oil to smooth the troubled water of our aggressive commercial policy

The United States need not worry about hearts and minds in foreign lands.

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

Companies like yours have got to do business with Japan [because] that country must be economically sound.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.