Paul Keating Quotes

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.

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

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.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

I will work for Bulgaria's strategic choice - Bulgaria's membership in the European Union and NATO. I think it is also extremely important to revive Bulgaria's relations with Russia, Ukraine and other strategic partners.

The foreign policy of Czechoslovakia must be first of all a Czechoslovak, then a European, and then a world policy.

Foreign policy is not philanthropy.

I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U.S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. ... When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.

… we have learned to live securely, in peace and mutual prosperity among our Asian and Pacific neighbors. We will not be cut off from our British and European cultures and traditions or from those economies. On the contrary, the more engaged we are economically and politically with the region around us, the more value and relevance we bring to those old relationships. Far from putting our identity at risk, our relationships with the region will energize it.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

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

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

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.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.