Sebastian Kurz Quotes

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

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

We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

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

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.

In the international world, when General Electric walks into the room, the Sixth Fleet walks in behind them.

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

In the wars of the European Powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

If we do not have the economic resources to be a leader, it’s going to affect our foreign policy.

No great power will allow itself to be strangulated.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

What really matters for great powers is power—national economic and military strength—and that speaks loudly and clearly for itself.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

The United States is a nation different from all others. We are now powerful if we choose to exert our strength.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.