Political Quotes

If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation-state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway and, if you don't pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent.

But a bomb planted by a Marxist revolutionary – well, that’s just merely a tragic excess of idealism.

If that is threatened, then I think the global economy is threatened, and the rules which have underpinned 150 years of international trade and commerce are also threatened, and that cannot be allowed to happen.

The United States is always committed to diplomacy. We are open-minded and always willing to engage in negotiated settlements of differences.