Bob Menendez Quotes

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

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

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

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.

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

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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.