Rafael Correa Quotes

We won’t be very successful with the Chinese leadership [on human rights issues] if we’re in their face all the time.

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

You will never hear me denigrating other countries.

We should treat other countries the way we want to be treated.

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

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.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

I shall have to depend upon you for taking care of these matters of foreign affairs, of which I know so little, and with which I reckon you are familiar.

Bipartisanship is like marriage. It takes two to make it work. It only takes one to make it a failure. The President has been playing politics with foreign policy.

Trust between allies is as important as deterrence of foes.

A policy that can be accurately, though perhaps not prudently, defined as one of “peaceful co-existence.”

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

Listen to others. Do not conduct foreign policy only according to your own ideology. Do not conduct foreign policy only with an eye on domestic politics.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, pay for it in our own behavior and in material ways. We will have to want it enough to overcome our lethargy and go out and find all those in other countries who want it as much as we do.

I like Mr. Gorbachev; we can do business together.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on, and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

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

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.