Best 145 quotes in «foreign policy quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The best ambassador is a warship.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

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