Foreign Policy Quotes

Foreign Policy Quote of the day

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

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

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.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

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

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.

The best ambassador is a warship.

I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

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

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

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

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

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.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.