Donald Trump Quotes

I've just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico, a man I like and respect very much. And a man who truly loves his country, Mexico.

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.

Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I find diplomatic histories the dullest of histories.

John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

I think the job of the first single is kind of like being a diplomat for a country.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

Susan Rice, she's distant. She is the UN ambassador, got nothing to do with Benghazi, not in the State Department. She has no representation at the consulate or at Benghazi, send her out there, and so Brian Williams said, "Why send you?".

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.

George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States broke out in December 1941. And until then he was writing pretty supportive statements back stressing that we shouldn't be so hard on the Nazis if they were doing something we didn't agree with - basically repeating the idea that they were people we could do business with.

It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

We have good personal relationship with President Obama, our relations are quite frank and business-like. And this is quite enough to do our job.

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.