Albert II, Prince of Monaco Quotes

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

Alliances do have to deal with political realities.

[Commenting on foreign policy:] The Best politics is no politics.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

It's never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

We are not a superpower like the U.S. We are a small and neutral country.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

America wants its respect.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

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.

I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?

Our plan was to have no Interest, Connection or Embarrassment in the Politicks or Wars of Europe, if we could avoid it.