Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Quotes

Every decision of strategic importance needs to go through the relevant institutions, certainly the sale of submarines to neighboring countries.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

You wouldn’t sell me arms. I had to buy them where I could.

If I were President I would veto arms sales to countries we damn well know our going to shoot our ass the minute our backs are turned.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

If we find what we need [arms] among friendly nations and if they give us what we ask, they do so for money. We are not getting anything for free. So, if things become complicated with a certain country we will find other countries, regardless of whether they are Eastern or Western.

No nation, no matter how destitute, likes to be told how much military "security" to buy.

Because the United States now leads the world in arms deliveries by such a wide margin, Washington has little credibility when it chides other governments for transferring weapons to U. S. enemies.

I don't want a political party in my government that interferes in Arab countries against other Arab countries.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.

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.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

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.