Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations in politics perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters and that is the facts.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

As I have tried to show science in producing the airplane and the wireless has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

English once accepted as an international language is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality race and language. I have been doubly lucky being accepted as a member of both.

In Israel a land lacking in natural resources we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

After all science is essentially international and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in for example the International Space Station we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization NASA.

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

When it comes to the president we have to respect him we have to protect him and we have to correct him. And in my career since he'd been on the national stage at least I've had - I've always respected the president.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

Because we should always respect other nationalities I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Every color I can think of and nationality we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic spiritual and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life there's a deep respect for her role.

The country that owns green that dominates that industry is going to have the most energy security national security economic security competitive companies healthy population and most of all global respect.

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

If Milosevic is to be tried he has to be tried by a proper court an impartial properly constituted court which has international respect.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones the national deity.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex age race skin color language religion political view or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.