John Chilcot Quotes

I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

I wonder if these gentlemen have stopped to think how we would feel if we differed with another nation and needed help on humanitarian grounds and our political differences of opinion were used against us when we were begging to keep our people from starvation.

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

We value our relationship with U.S.A. and are engaged with them at various levels.

We've always had this fantastic relationship with America.

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

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.

It is not a winning game for Europeans to have a hostility to the United States.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

The British claim to have a special relationship with the U.S., but if you mention this in Washington, no one knows what you are talking about.

We all know there are vast differences between Trump and Trudeau as people, but we need to separate that from the pursuit of the mutual interests of the United States and Canada.

Israel is an ally of the United States, and I think as much as you would look to your neighbor to your friends to live out the same values as you are, we want to make sure that our allies are living out the same values that we push for here.

We must immediately find the way to come and say to the U.S., 'Despite the difficult differences of opinion between us, there are no closer friends, and no better allies than you to us, and we to you.'

I want to use the good name of my father George Bush to build a better relationship between the U.S. and China. There are so many misunderstandings and there is a lot to do.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

It was in the first Abe administration that we started the mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests between Japan and China.

I will tell you that the special relationship that America has with the Israeli people transcends any of the politics.