James Humes Quotes

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

For a relationship between two countries to be sustainable, it must be mutually beneficial.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you'll be there to take theirs?

The best way to influence our enemies is to stand steadfastly by our friends.

We must support our supporters.

Anyone Who throws their lot in with the United States has to be taken care of. Loyalty works both ways… It’s a matter of morality.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

Bellator has taken care of me, and I've taken care of them. It's been the perfect storm of a symbiotic relationship - them having an asset they were not willing to lose, and me being in a situation where the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

You have teams on and off the field. You have your team off the field in terms of your family, friends, and people that you work with, and then you have your team on the field. You have to give to receive and be there for people and hope that they do the same for you.

When I was negotiating with our foreign allies, I knew I had to do so in good faith, or trust would be broken - and those allies wouldn't be there when we really needed them.

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

It is in a country's interests to keep faith with its allies. States in this sense are like people. If you have a reputation for exacting favors and not returning them, the favours dry up.

I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

We have to go to those countries and we have to ask them to make contributions that are greater than the contributions they're making right now. You know, we're going to protect them, we're going to remain loyal to them, but at the same time it's a two-way street. They have to help us also.