Gordon Brown Quotes

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

Once this key conflict is eased, it will have a huge impact on the world. It will take time to find a solution. It's similar to the situation between East and the West at the time of my flight.

Where in the world would I rather be than on the front line of history?

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

The President is of opinion that if Japan makes a treaty with the United States, all other foreign countries will make the same kind of a treaty, and Japan will be safe thereafter.

This is the American moment in world history and one for which we shall ever be judged.

It seems to me to matter little whether you have an alliance which is committed to paper, or whether you have an understanding in the minds of the statesmen of the respective countries.

In an era of mass communications and electronic transmission, the public matters. The “street” is a potent force and can undermine even the best crafted peace agreements.

[Commenting on Japan:] Our destinies have become inseparable .... Our future together will have much to do with the future of the world.

No foreign policy, no matter how ingenious, has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

No state, without the Consent of the United States in Congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state;

All problems in the world today are multilateral, and all these one-on-one agreements simply aren't going to do it.

In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

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

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

In 1988, the Summer Olympics were held in Korea, which was a divided country... It was an opportunity for the East and the West to come together in harmony and also take a significant role in ending the Cold War era.

Take a lesson from President Obama, and don't go around Congress. When given the opportunity to work with lawmakers on the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement, Obama chose to forgo the hard fight of treaty ratification and instead ruled by executive order. And now the United States is party to neither pact.