Foreign Quotes

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.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

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

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

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.

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

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.

We know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn't be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

I will force Hillary Clinton to fight on the ground of her foreign policy mistakes.

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.