Foreign Policy Quotes

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It's all pretty extraordinary.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

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.

I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren't.

America is far less safe and the world is far less stable than when Obama made the decision to pub Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

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

The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars, and unleashed ISIS across the world.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

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.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

My personal analysis is that, if you are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and getting into foolish wars, then Hillary Clinton is not your woman. On the other hand, I mean neither is Donald Trump.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

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.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.