Andrzej Duda Quotes

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

You can't give Russia the right to interfere with the internal affairs of counties in its area.... You have to drive up the cost to Russia for aggression.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

[Vladimir] Putin trampled on international rules and sovereignty of the Ukraine.

Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in the future.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

In my experience, in bringing coercive diplomacy to bear against Slobodan Milosevic, no bomb strike was more important than maintaining NATO's cohesion.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

The U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

We're not trying to start a war; we're trying to send a political message.

It’s not in our interest to drive the Russians into a beleaguered attitude where they have to prove what they can do.

International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.

A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.

Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations.

If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.

You just hope that we haven't soured an entire generation on the necessity, from time to time, of using force because Iraq has been such a debacle. That would be tragic because Iran is a grave threat.