Foreign Quotes

Foreign 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

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

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.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

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.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

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

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

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

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

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.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

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.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

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

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.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

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

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

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.

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

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.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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.

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.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.