So instead of unilateral Bush cowboyism, we elected…

“Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing to use…

— Bernard Lewis

Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't…

— Bruce Riedel

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American…

— Harry Belafonte

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what…

— Aldrich Ames

Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent…

— Howard Zinn

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of…

— Lee H. Hamilton

The 2003 war in Iraq may be considered the greatest error in American policy since the Civil War. Its ramifications are earth-shattering and will…

— Malcolm Nance

President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged…

— Peter Arnett

Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.

— Richard Engel

The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism.…

— James Reston

It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None…

— Jonathan Schell

All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan.

— Raymond T. Odierno

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956,…

— Denis Healey

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are…

— Muqtada al Sadr

“And it was no accident, in the late forties, that the makers of American policy, unwilling to backtrack with the public, began to try…

— T.R. Fehrenbach