Foreign policy Quotes · Page 11

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

— Hillary Clinton

We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

— John Bolton

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

— Sarah Palin

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

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

— Daniel Silva

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

— Jon Stewart

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

— Eric Alterman

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

— Gustav Stresemann

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

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

— Joe Biden

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who…

— Geraldine Ferraro

There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over…

— Lech Kaczynski

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Michael Parenti

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

— Wang Yizhou

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its…

— Jim Mattis

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,…

— John Pilger

There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into…

— Walter Karp

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of…

— William Blum

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it.…

— Jeff Sessions

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of…

— Condoleezza Rice

There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent…

— Rafael Correa

Every day at the State Department, we tackle issues at the intersection of foreign policy and science and technology.

— Antony Blinken

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

— Michael Mandelbaum

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

— Harry Browne

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

— William E. Gladstone

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

— Robert Dallek

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Charles Stanley

I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

— Barney Frank

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

— Charles Krauthammer

Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

— Barack Obama

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

— Fareed Zakaria

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

— Spiro T. Agnew

I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

— Donald Trump

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

— Rand Paul

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

— Joe Biden

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

— Julianne Malveaux