Nikki Haley Quotes

Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

If Iran wants to be treated as a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.

Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.

If the world believes that Iran doesn't play by the rules and imposes sanctions, then we'll follow them whether we have an opinion about it or not.

Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons as more in their security interest than not.

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

Putin has a lot at stake here and restoring the relationship with the United States, and there are already signs as Sandy mentioned that he's moving in the right direction to begin to ascertain that their trade with Iran is not used for the production of nuclear weapons.

Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

If there are countries in the world who are willing to flout sanctions, it doesn’t matter if we have sanctions or not.

We must have a world organization for the purpose of deliberation, but not for the purpose of waging wars and imposing sanctions.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Iran has not earned the right to have the benefit of the doubt.

International law has no simple enforcement mechanism.

International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.

I think that the public debate that we had on the Iran deal was very important. That's probably one of the most consequential things most of us will ever vote on ; a nuclear arms control agreement with a mortal enemy. And the White House - despite all their efforts - failed miserably.

Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program.

Unfortunately, the international community is not ready to deal with Iran's repeated provocations.

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.