Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

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

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

I'd like to build stable relationships with neighboring countries including China and Russia.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

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.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

How can we expect other nations to respect our law if we don't respect theirs?

No nation can ever be safe in the position it holds among nations, however great and however imposing, unless it recognizes those principles of justice and equality which bind together the nations of the world.

[Commenting on Japan:] Our destinies have become inseparable .... Our future together will have much to do with the future of the world.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.