Pete Hoekstra Quotes

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.

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

Animosity is not a policy.

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

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 do not believe that good relations with one country precludes good relations with another.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

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.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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

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.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

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.