Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country's reputation around the world.

If the US had a relationship with Russia, North Korea - which is our single biggest problem right now - North Korea, it would be helped a lot. I think I'm doing very well with respect to China. They've cut off financing; they've cut off bank lines; they've cut off lots of oil and lots of other things. And it's having a big impact. But Russia, on the other hand, may be making up the difference. And if they are, that's not a good thing. So having a relationship with Russia would be a great thing - not a good thing - it would be a great thing, especially as it relates to North Korea.

It's better to get along with Russia than not.

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia].

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Historians in the future will surely wonder what went so wrong when the United States, for the first time ever, focused its foreign policy on the Islamic world.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.