Andrew H. Kydd Quotes

The best way to influence our enemies is to stand steadfastly by our friends.

We need to quit appeasing our adversaries, and we need to stand with our allies.

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

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

Peace and security for the United States depend on building principled, constructive, clear-eyed relations with our former great-power adversaries.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

Conflict with our allies in a war is terrible. But the only thing worse is fighting a war without allies.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I'm resolved to be active on diplomacy as Japan further develops relationships based on trust and cooperation with countries including the U.S.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute.

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.

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.

No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all … is entirely our friend.

On of the most important lessons of the Cold War was demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will live to regret having done so.

America’s foreign policy has left us with more enemies and fewer allies.

For a relationship between two countries to be sustainable, it must be mutually beneficial.

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

Deterrence is a dynamic, interactive process between at least two entities. Deterrence policies are predicated on threatening an adversary with pain if that adversary changes its behavior in ways that you find detrimental to your interests.

Frankly, Senators, if nations may not safely agree to respect each other’s rights, and may not agree to confer if one party to the compact threatens trespass, or may not agree to advise if one party to the pact is threatened by an outside power, then all concerted efforts to tranquilize the world and stabilize peace must be flung to the winds. Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery

History asks of us that we never act unilaterally, never alone, but only within the alliances of NATO, the United Nations and the European Union as it is clearly specified in international law