Foreign Policy Quotes

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

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

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

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

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

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

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

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

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

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

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

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

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

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

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.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

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

The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.