Top 1200 Us Foreign Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

For me, it's more about being there, bearing witness to history, bearing witness to what's happening, what our country, the position our country is taking overseas. I want policy-makers to see the fruits of their decisions, basically, and to try and influence foreign policy.

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart.

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

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

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

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

Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

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

I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy.

The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

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

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

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

If you think the country is at risk of imploding due to cancel culture, lack of border control, horrific foreign policy decisions going back decades, and bowing down to China - and many of us do - then absolutely a Trump speech is a breath of comforting and soothing fresh air.

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

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

A transactional foreign policy is not what convinces people around the world to stand with America.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

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

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.] Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.

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

You don`t have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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

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

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

Success in foreign policy, as in carpentry, requires the right tools for the job.

Demanding an end to partisan bickering on foreign policy is not an unrealistic requirement.

Cooperation with the U.S. is the basis on which all Israeli foreign policy is built.

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

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

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

Our foreign policy must be rooted in a love for all of humanity.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

With regard to the more moderates, I have spent 20 years as a United States Marine. I'm a little more realistic when it comes to some of these foreign policy, defense policy issues, some of the things we do overseas. And so I really feel like I can connect to the more moderates.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

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

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.