James G. Blaine Quotes

Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire for friendship with the United States.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

The amount of respect with which I engage Saudi Arabia, I engage Iran with the same amount of respect. The amount of respect with which I speak to America, I speak to Russia with the same amount of respect.

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

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

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

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.

If the condition of our relations with other nations is less gratifying than it has usually been at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily distracted as we are might reasonably apprehended.

The relations of our two countries rest on traditional bases, quite other than those with other nations, and are of commanding influence on the whole of the world!

It is not a winning game for Europeans to have a hostility to the United States.

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big powers who need the United States for their protection. It is all the others.

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

We speak of the United States as a “benign hegemony”.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't have to choose sides.