Top 1200 Us Foreign Policy Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

In terms of our foreign policy, that's where we made a mistake after 9/11. Everyone's going, "Why, why, why," and there wasn't any investigation or learning from any of what we had been doing up to that time that had set us up.

Foreign policy is painstakingly difficult, and if there is to be anything gained from the experience in Libya, it is how not to conduct world affairs.

Americans in general, I think, don't understand the weight and gravity of foreign policy and how to engage the world at large.

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

Obama represents one-world government, a.k.a. Neocolonialism. Presidents don't change anything locally - they only deal with foreign policy.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.

Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

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.

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

We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy ... not for the real reason: because the Arab Muslims who attacked us hate our Middle Eastern foreign policy.

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of monsters. It is about time that we understood that the U.S. government does more to endanger the American people than any imagined monsters around the world…by pursuing its Grand Foreign Policy of meddling anywhere and everywhere.

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

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.

On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

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

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

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

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

I mean, on one hand Rex Tillerson is correct, there are no plans to change the One China policy. But certainly that policy is on the table if China doesn't also come to the table and work with us on trade, work with us on the South China Sea on what's happening there.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

Being a President I will carry out a foreign-policy platform that will transform America's role in the world to that of a proactive, not reactive, superpower that will use diplomacy and incentives to head off trouble in unstable regions before they unravel out of control. I will also be wearing platform shoes when I meet with foreign dignitaries to accentuate my well-toned calves.

The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

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

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.

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

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

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

Clinton appears to be the sole holdout in the Obama administration in understanding the catastrophe caused by its foreign policy in Libya.

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

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.