David Lange Quotes

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

We [Iran and the United States] have a common destiny in this region [The Middle East].

Israel is part of the free world led by the United States, no matter what.

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

My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them.

The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'

American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States.

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.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

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.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.

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

When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

the avowed pretension of the United States, to put themselves at the head of the confederacy of all the Americas, and to sway that confederacy against Europe (Great Britain included), is not a pretension identified with our interests, or one that we can countenance or tolerate. It is, however, a pretension which there is no use in contesting in the abstract; but we must not say anything that seems to admit this principle.

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 U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

One hour ago, President Johnson informed me that Egyptian forces are preparing an attack on Israeli positions and that this attack is to be launched. If such a thing happens, then the United States will consider itself freed from the commitments it gave to the USSR to exercise restraint.