Joe Manchin Quotes

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

…sanctions applied to a large nation meant war. They bred “incurable hatreds”.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Unilateral sanctions only make foreign rivals stronger and taint us as unreliable suppliers.

All over the world, the Trump administration is pursuing a range of policies: tweeting insults at Maduro, negotiating with a defiant North Korea, sending a small fleet of warships to the Persian Gulf to intimidate Iran. But the speed with which the president always sours on these efforts means they can never be part of any discernible strategy.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

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

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.