Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No nation has friends only interests.
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.