Arthur Capper Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

We do not believe that good relations with one country precludes good relations with another.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I am in favor of a foreign policy that will cultivate relations of peace with all nations, and I will never give my influence, either as a private citizen or a public servant, for war, so long as it can be honorably avoided.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations it need fear no interference from the United States.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

I want to use the good name of my father George Bush to build a better relationship between the U.S. and China. There are so many misunderstandings and there is a lot to do.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

Wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with people, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along, as an example, with Russia?

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

If America could get along with Russia - and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.