Michael Sata Quotes

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

If we find what we need [arms] among friendly nations and if they give us what we ask, they do so for money. We are not getting anything for free. So, if things become complicated with a certain country we will find other countries, regardless of whether they are Eastern or Western.

We have normal relations with lots of countries whose leadership we do not like..

It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons.

I do have a relationship with Putin, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today.

You know in the West they support realistic forces.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

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.

You should never make alliances with a decadent nation like France and a semi-barbarous nation like Russia

One of the great power’s intents in granting trade concessions and inducements or taking a hard line toward another state is to enable a favorable foreign policy coalition abroad or disable an unfavorable coalition.

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

The problem is not so much that they are Communists as it is that they are Russians.

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

We do not worry about how a sovereign country keeps its relations with others.

What you have to remember about Belarus is that it's a small state - it has a population of less than 10m people - and like many small states, it has to be very careful about its relationships.

The U.S.-Israel relationship is so important.

Barak Obama got involved, I don't know if Brexit was through a friendship with David Cameron.

I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even seems to idolize him. Neither his cabinet appointees nor the civil servants in the Pentagon and the State Department feel the same way, however, so we don't know what this admiration will bring.