Paul Keating Quotes

If Russia and the United States approach each other in starkly adversarial terms, the conflict will badly warp the foreign policy of both countries ...

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.

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.

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

Russia is not a friendly character on the world stage.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Russia is not a threat to France - why should I be hostile to Russia.

Russia is not our friend.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

In my judgment, us assisting the Chinese military in advancing technologically is not in U.S. national interests.

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point in the future to save his own skin as head of state in Russia.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

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

I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.

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

Great powers engage.