Foreign policy Quotes · Page 4

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

— Ralph Nader

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

— George W. Bush

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

— George W. Bush

I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

— David Brooks

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— George Packer

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

— Ted Lieu

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

— Pete Hoekstra

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

— George W. Bush

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

— Joe Biden

“Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

— Alexander Hamilton

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

— Donald Trump

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

— Ernest Bevin

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

— Herman Cain

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest.…

— Chuck Hagel

There's a pattern in Bush 43's presidency of being attracted to the big and the bold, and my whole reading of him…

— Richard N. Haass

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an…

— Chrystia Freeland

America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign…

— Ro Khanna

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I…

— John McCain

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America.…

— Martin Schulz

The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose…

— George Washington

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil…

— John McCain

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,…

— Michael Parenti

“When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business"…

— Madeleine Albright

The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan…

— Robert Reich

I think that it's very important to have the United States' engagement in many situations we have around the world, be it…

— Antonio Guterres

We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America,…

— Ro Khanna

“Di samping politik bebas aktif, kita telah menjalankan all direction foreign policy. Tadi ditambahkan lagi, million friends, zero enemy. Di samping aktif…

— SBYudhoyono

Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a…

— Angela Merkel

One of the things you learn in government is there's a long tail to American decision-making when it comes to foreign policy.…

— Ben Rhodes

I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded…

— Munir Butt

“The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in…

— Nadje Al-Ali

Gore Vidal, Glenn Greenwald, Noam Chomsky, talk about how the U.S. became a national security state after World War II. Essentially there's…

— Michael Hastings

“Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy…

— Michael Wolff

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to…

— Jimmy Carter

'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence…

— George Washington

An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq…

— Georgie Anne Geyer