Foreign policy Quotes · Page 10

It's hard to overstate the lasting harm Mr. Tillerson's tenure will do to America's diplomacy.

— Antony Blinken

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

— Alexander Hamilton

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

— Michael Mandelbaum

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

— Ted Cruz

President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.

— Elise Stefanik

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies…

— Bert Holldobler

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives…

— Joe Biden

President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous.…

— Pat Buchanan

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US…

— Jamie Zawinski

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has…

— Carlos Fuentes

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,…

— Stanley Hauerwas

We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's…

— Lee Hsien Loong

We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the…

— Joe Biden

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything…

— Oliver North

The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without…

— Joe Biden

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to…

— John Podhoretz

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to…

— Michael T. Flynn

At the end of the day,[Mitt] Romney was pro-life, but [Rick] Santorum was more fervently pro-life, and had been for longer. They're…

— William Kristol

I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality.…

— Colin Farrell

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

— Jeb Bush

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

— George W. Bush

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

— Alexander Skarsgard

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

— Ted Cruz

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

— Bob Woodward

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Bergen

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”

— Kenneth Pollack

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

— Nat Hentoff

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

— James Reston

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

— Emily Thornberry

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

— Marco Rubio

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s.

— Barack Obama

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Irving Kristol