Cordell Hull Quotes

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

Great powers engage.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

U. S. foreign policy in the 20th century was characterized by disastrous oscillations between over-commitment and isolation

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

I think the Chinese are wise. After all, they know the U.S. is in a very different league than Russia. The U.S. is the major power in the world, and the US-China relationship... is very important to global stability, to sustain global economic growth.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

No nation has friends only interests.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Our use of the United Nations as an instrument for opposing Soviet expansion. prior to the conclusion of peace, has strained that institution severely. It has an increasing tendency to alarm smaller nations and to paralyze, rather than stimulate, their will to play an active part in the organization

The USSR has emerged from the war in the role of one of most authoritative powers in world. It is now impossible to solve serious questions of international relations without participation of USSR.

It is the evident destiny of the British and Americans, and of course the Russians to rule the world.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.