Care Quote by George Soros

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

— Simone Weil

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

— Edwidge Danticat

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

— Kofi Annan

The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were…

— Joseph Nye

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get…

— John F. Kerry

But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.

— William J. Clinton

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing…

— Dennis C. Blair

We are a global power. We have interests all around the globe, and we're going to need to continue to do what's necessary to…

— Lloyd Austin

“You know, in the realm of diplomacy, we are all bound to defend and promote our respective national interests. But, there is also such…

— SBYudhoyono

Nations are like people. Once you understand the interactions between nations, it's easy to understand why things are done, in terms of foreign policy,…

— Serj Tankian

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

— John F. Kennedy

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy,…

— Angela Merkel