Bashir Assad Quotes

There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility– only eternal interests.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

The decision is not directed against either of the two national groups that inhabit Palestine. On the contrary, it corresponds to the fundamental interests of both peoples.

The Algerines, in particular, would never acknowledge the flag of the United States, unless it were made for their interests to do so.

Conquest or superiority among other powers is not or ought not ever to be the object of republican systems.

For a relationship between two countries to be sustainable, it must be mutually beneficial.

While pursuing its own interests, a country should accommodate the legitimate interests of others.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship - I repeat - of cooperation with the United States.

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

When I was Prime Minister, it's right - we had a close relationship - but that did not prevent me, when I believed the United States position was wrong, arguing against them.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Britain has national honor. It would not have allowed Israel to meddle in its internal affairs.

Harmonious relations with a superpower like America should be a priority, but it does not mean that one should start begging from it.

Communist party leadership in China knows that Canada's political and media elite values feeling superior to the United States more than they value standing on principle on the international stage.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

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.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

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

A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.