Foreign policy Quotes

The best ambassador is a warship.

— Michelle J. Howard

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

— Anonymous

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

— Carlos Mesa

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

— Joshua Wong

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

— George F. Kennan

“Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.”

— Amit Kalantri

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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

— Charles Krauthammer

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

— Michael Baumgartner

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than…

— James Madison

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

— Eric Cantor

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Hozier

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

— Vladimir Putin

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

— Brad Sherman

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own…

— Pat Buchanan

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed…

— Joe Biden

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a…

— Paul Broun

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with…

— Cleveland Amory

We need a foreign policy which responds to challenges like forced marriage, and which speaks to the particular needs of women and…

— Emily Thornberry

“China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in…

— Wang Yizhou

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side,…

— Michael Parenti

You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy,…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

What's interesting about the foreign policy establishment critique is, you know, I think the Blob and I have more in common in…

— Ben Rhodes

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy…

— Martin Jacques

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has…

— Chris Christie

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is…

— Thomas Jefferson

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our…

— John Perkins

If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have…

— David Brooks

“In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work…

— Michael Wolff

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…

— Fareed Zakaria

“Israel's demonstration of its military prowess in 1967 confirmed its status as a 'strategic asset,' as did its moves to prevent Syrian…

— Noam Chomsky

The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of…

— John Bolton

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which…

— John Stuart Mill

I think it is inevitable that leftist forces in the US would be divided, if not balkanized, to some extent. Among the…

— Robert Pollin

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy…

— Karl Marx

“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think, while it is true that the Hillary Clinton and I voted differently on the war in Iraq, what is important…

— Bernie Sanders