Hamid Karzai Quotes

Trump wants to make peace; he wants to see Ukrainian conflict resolved; he wants to see Ukraine get its territory back. It's crystal clear. With Putin, I think we see glimmers; we see a reason to think maybe they do. But they have to make the choice to do that, and they can very well choose the opposite.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Serbia must now be dealt with.

Israel's interest is all I care about.

Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, "But I did not say which side.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

We will not let the price of peace be greater than the price of war, we will firmly safeguard the achievements of the past 13 years under former President Karzai.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

In war ... diplomacy is the handmaiden of the necessities of the War Office.

India and Pakistan have to work out their difficulties … to take advantage of the century that is before them.

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.