Best 145 quotes in «foreign policy quotes» category

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

I am different from Putin, that Russia should not isolate itself. Everything that happens in our country is justified through Syria or Ukraine. But when one's own citizens only make 300 euros, one can't have much clout in foreign policy.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

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

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

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

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.

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

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 best ambassador is a warship.

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

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

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

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

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.