Paul Danahar Quotes

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

Israel is absolutely critical to American national security.

There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

Is Turkey one of the Ayrab countries with which you don't get on very well?

Doesn't it seem awfully strange that the Iraqi government we support is an ally of the Iranians who are our declared enemies? Are we not now supporting the Iranians by propping up their allies in Iraq?

Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what.

America has to stand by our allies. I think the tension that existed between Israel and the United States was very unfortunate.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

And by the way, a piece of news, Israel is the one country in which everyone is pro-American, opposition and coalition alike. And I represent the entire people of Israel who say, 'Thank you, America.' And we're friends of America, and we're the only reliable allies of America in the Middle East.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

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.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

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

If the United States credibly threatens to treat Pakistan like it does Iran, Pakistan’s leaders would find it best to cooperate.

America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs America…. Pakistan is the pivot of the world, the frontier upon which the future of the world revolves