Donald Trump Quotes

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

We have normal relations with lots of countries whose leadership we do not like..

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

John Kerry is going to have a rough tenure as secretary of state. But let's face it: whoever came after Hillary Clinton was going to have to deal with a foreign affairs press corps that has been sleeping for four years. From the moment Hillary entered Foggy Bottom, political reporters have treated their beloved secretary of state with kid gloves.

I served as the chairman of the India-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group for three years, during which I also had the pleasure of visiting Israel.

Argentina wants to have good ties with the entire world.

It is 60 years since the restoration of diplomatic relations, but relations between Japan and Russia have much deeper roots. In all, our diplomatic ties date back 150 years, more than 150 years now.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

On foreign affairs, we've already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders, much of it you've covered, to move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world, which there are many.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed.

Things change. There has to be flexibility. Let me give you an example. President Xi, we have a, like, a really great relationship. For me to call him a currency manipulator and then say, “By the way, I'd like you to solve the North Korean problem,” doesn't work. So you have to have a certain flexibility, Number One. Number Two, from the time I took office till now, you know, it's a very exact thing. It's not like generalities.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

However, personally, I see this as not having the right to abuse this trust [among the citizens of Russia and Japan], and any decision we reach should correspond to the national interests of the Russian Federation.

I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a bloody big wheat trade too, so get your priorities right." And he said, "Okay, Bob. I'll come." I rang George and he was very appreciative.

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

There must not and cannot be any conflict, estrangement or misunderstanding between the Chinese people and America.

Every president I worked for, at some point in his presidency, would get so pissed off at the Israelis that he couldn’t speak.