Foreign Quotes

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

When it comes to our foreign policy, Mitt Romney seems 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.

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.

It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

Therefore today we have an absolutely sufficient level of gold and foreign currency reserves in order to ensure economic stability and sustainable foreign trade turnover.

The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.