Jeb Bush Quotes

Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

We do not agree with policies that would lead to attempts at easing sanctions or lifting them and returning to business as usual with Russia. We believe that such behaviour will only embolden the aggressive behavior of Russia, as the last 12 years have shown, starting with Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008.

When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

Sanctions are not really an economic weapon.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

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.

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

…this is a warning to the Russian authorities

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

Iran is for negotiations…. This is the principle of Iranian Foreign Policy…. Iranians should make sure that the United States is not using pressure on Iran for negotiations.

If the United States credibly threatens to treat Pakistan like it does Iran, Pakistan’s leaders would find it best to cooperate.

Policymakers in Washington and Tokyo know that they have little leverage to bring down the North Korean regime. But they also fear the regional chaos that regime change would bring..

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.

We must effectively counter Moscow's attempts at influence with American strength and resolve, certainly not with a weak approach to President Putin or with any relief from sanctions.

Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.

We're going to fight hard on this. We're going to push hard - not just on North Korea; we're going to push hard on other countries who are not abiding by the resolutions and not abiding by the sanctions against North Korea.

There must be pressure on Moscow so that we have negotiations. Moscow will not succeed by unilaterally backing Bashar al-Assad.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

America will regret imposing sanctions on Iran... they're already isolated in the world.

How can we pressure China on North Korea if China's one of the two largest holders of American debt?

No amount of sanctioning will persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, nor will China step up and solve the problem for us.