Best 145 quotes in «foreign policy quotes» category

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

If the Sharia was to be implemented elsewhere, and, as part of its foreign policy, it would remove the operators in the way of preventing the Sharia.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Now, I can't help but feel inferior. When I'm out in public in Afghanistan, I feel inferior because I'm doing everything I can to stay hidden, silent. I feel inferior because I am seeing firsthand the impact of America's foreign policy and can't help but feel like a living, breathing representation of that - despite my own personal views about that policy. It reinforces to me that I want to be part of the solution - and I want my work to be part of the solution - not part of the problem.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

The best ambassador is a warship.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn`t true, he kept saying again and again and again.

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran.

The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

We have to have a more realistic foreign policy and not a utopian one where we say, oh, we're going to spread freedom and democracy, and everybody in the Middle East is going to love us. They are not going to love us.

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.