Paul Keating Quotes

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

We can not have peace and prosperity in Asia with any single country trying to dominate the region.

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Why entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

Peace and security for the United States depend on building principled, constructive, clear-eyed relations with our former great-power adversaries.

The first responsibility of any President is to work for peace in the world and prosperity at home.

[Arguing against isolationism:] This country is not looking for prestige. It has all it can use. It is not looking for power. It has, likewise, all that it knows how to use .... [But] are we willing to live behind a Maginot Line or a Great Wall of China here on the North American continent, and trade and travel in the rest of the world only as permitted by a stronger power than we are?

The increase of riches and commerce and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbors.

A strong Germany is an indispensable condition for a durable peace in Europe.

Security can no longer be attained by arming ourselves against a potential enemy. Rather, security is attainable only with his cooperation.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.

Britain can get far better results if it engages with Europe than standing on the sidelines and saying that Europe should change.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.