Ahmet Davutoglu Quotes

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

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

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

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.

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.'

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

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

I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

I met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, visited our allies in the Arab Gulf, traveled to Tunisia and Iraq, met with President Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine, and visited our allies in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.

It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

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

Resolved that there be held a conference of the white nations bordering upon the Pacific for unity of action against the aggression of Japan.

One of the great power’s intents in granting trade concessions and inducements or taking a hard line toward another state is to enable a favorable foreign policy coalition abroad or disable an unfavorable coalition.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I think overall our national security is strengthened if we are able to make the decisions that we need and the alliances that we believe in outside the current structures of the European Union.

I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.