Foreign policy Quotes · Page 11

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

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

— Sam Brownback

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

— John Howard

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

— Hillary Clinton

The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— John Bolton

China wants Western countries to be timid. Its strategic foreign policy has been to make any criticism of the Communist Party of…

— Erin O'Toole

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always…

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Barack Obama

I had a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions. l might have given Al Capone a few hints. The…

— Anonymous

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to…

— Ron Paul

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican…

— Chuck Todd

If somebody wants to sit down with me for an hour and interview me and ask me any question about my record,…

— John Kasich

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

— Mitt Romney

Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took…

— Lech Kaczynski

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida…

— Lawton Chiles

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -…

— Daniel Fried

Our current administration is a patchwork - some from the French, some from the Swiss, the Turks, the Ottomans; then the Russians…

— Ashraf Ghani

George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.…

— Al Gore

But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Walter Karp

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

— Spiro T. Agnew

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Fareed Zakaria

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

— Donald Trump

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

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

— Rand Paul

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

— John Foster Dulles

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

— Pete Hoekstra

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Domestic policy, foreign policy, I tend to come down more on the liberal side.

— Kirsten Powers

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

— Antony Blinken

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

— William E. Gladstone

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

— Harry Browne

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

— Michael Mandelbaum