Foreign Quotes

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

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.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

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

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

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

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

Playing in Italy was like being in a foreign country.

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.

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

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

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

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

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

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

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 never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries.

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.

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.

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.

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

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

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

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

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.