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We hear from all sides that the West is defending a ‘rules-based order’. Where did these rules come from? Who has even seen these rules? Who agreed on them? Listen, this is just some kind of nonsense, sheer deceit, double or even triple standards. These ‘rules’ are simply designed for fools.

The interference of foreigners in the region is a source of discord and damage. All issues and incidents must be resolved without foreign interference and the countries of the region should follow the example of Iran and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic for power and rationality.

The US is a manifestation of modern ignorance, discrimination, oppression, and creating crises in the world today. Basically, the US regime creates crises, lives off of crises, and feeds on various crises in the world. Ukraine is another victim of this policy.

Attempts to isolate Russia have failed, and our enemies have to admit it.

The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers. The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.

All those innocent Iraqi civilians. All the men and women, children killed by U.S. airstrikes. Some in massacres…None of those weigh on your conscience? None of those keep you up at night?

If you think things are crazy now, just you wait until the imperial crosshairs move to Beijing.

To be honest, it was absolutely unexpected for me. It’s disappointing. Frankly speaking, I did not expect to hear this from the former chancellor, because I have always assumed that the German leadership behaves sincerely with us.

Europeans cannot resolve the crisis in Ukraine; how can we credibly say on Taiwan, ‘watch out, if you do something wrong we will be there’? If you really want to increase tensions that’s the way to do it.

How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country.

The (Xi-Putin) meeting should have provided China the opportunity to encourage Russia to pursue diplomacy and de-escalation in Ukraine. That is what the world expects from responsible powers.

Let’s close most of those bases, bring the money home, get the peace dividend, rebuild our industrial base, and have an economic competition against the Chinese—that’s friendly, that’s congenial, but that’s vigorous and robust.

Washington should tell governments that printing lies and teaching intolerance will have consequences in terms of foreign assistance, political support, and military aid.

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can’t do anything unless Congress says yes.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: ‘Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs.’ It seems that the Daily Telegraph was unaware that Chicherin’s mother was a Jewess. The Russian Molotov, who became Foreign Minister later, has a Jewish wife, and one of his two assistants is the Jew, Lozovsky. It was the last-named who renewed the treaty with Japan in 1942, by which the Kamchatka fisheries provided the Japanese with an essential part of their food supplies.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

The very phrase ‘foreign affairs’ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience – hat is not arguable – in foreign affairs.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

On foreign affairs, we’ve already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders, much of it you’ve covered, to move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world, which there are many.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

People are always asking me in interviews, ‘What do you think of foreign affairs?’ I just say, ‘I’ve had a few.’

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA’s FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs… and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts… the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich – convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.