Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

Never attempt to buy the favor of your enemies at the expense of your friends.

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

You cannot have a relationship with someone you can't trust.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

It's not the traditional promise ring. It's basically to always stay truthful. I think that's a really important part of a relationship, that you're always honest with each other.

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you'll be there to take theirs?

It’s important to be friends with people when you don’t need each other, so that when you do, there’s a strong bond of friendship.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship - I repeat - of cooperation with the United States.

If we can ascertain and show to our people that the West is ready to deal with Iran on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests and equal footing, then it will have an impact on almost every aspect of Iran's foreign policy behavior - and some aspects of Iran's domestic policy.

I said, maybe you need to take a risk with someone else. But they kept saying no, we want you to stay.

America will honor our treaty obligations.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.