Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

We won’t be very successful with the Chinese leadership [on human rights issues] if we’re in their face all the time.

Certainly he had none of a gentleman's instincts, strutting about peace conferences in Arab dress.

Be careful what you say. Words matter. Words really matter in foreign policy.

For foreign policy it is necessary to have men who inspire confidence.

lot of the uneasiness among Mexican leaders is because of the unknowns. Well those are to be determined and to be discussed and to be negotiated. At the end of the day, our neighborss aren't going anywhere and neigher are we, and we need to find ways to make it work.

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

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

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

Cooperating in something as visible as space exploration and space flight can only improve relations between the two countries because what happens is, you're working on a common project in a very visible light and so, you're motivated to not have conflicts with each other in other areas. And bringing up China is a good example. In the early '90's, China got serious about wanting to launch astronauts into space and they were actually quite successful in launching many communication satellites. They went ahead and in 2003 they launched their first astronaut into space.

I don't think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there's no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn't make any sense either.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Take a look at the way that Trump has described some of the foreign countries that we deal with - some that are allies and some that are not. China is one example. He said they were currency manipulators, but after he sat down with President Xi and had a piece of chocolate cake, he then said they were no longer currency manipulators.

[Donald] Trump has said that I would like to sit down and talk to people, work things out. Well, guess what? Some of the evidence is that was, he went straight to Mexico and sat down and had a conference and a meeting directly with Pea Nieto to go over all this. OK, that.