Lajos Kossuth Quotes

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

How can we expect other nations to respect our law if we don't respect theirs?

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

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

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

We have to understand how we would act if some other country did to us what we do to them.

Listen to others. Do not conduct foreign policy only according to your own ideology. Do not conduct foreign policy only with an eye on domestic politics.

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

Let politicians deal with politics. I will put effort into enhancing the dialogue between the Turkish and Armenian peoples.

We don’t tell others how to run their countries.

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

Partisan politics should stop at the boundaries of the United States.

The most important relationship in the world is the U. S. - China relationship.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.