Foreign policy Quotes · Page 13

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more…

— Robert C. O'Brien

Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy andnational security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

— Jack Keane

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield:…

— John Quincy Adams

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

The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Martin Schulz

And I think the only way you're going to improve US foreign policy and set a sound course for the future is…

— Max Boot

For me foreign policy is critically important.

— Michael Capuano

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“In the succeeding thirty-two years of U.S. guidance, not only has Guatemala gradually become a terrorist state rarely matched in the scale…

— Noam Chomsky

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is…

— Lindsey Graham

The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. They think a lot of the ISIS…

— Donald Trump

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the…

— Reginald Maudling

American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S.…

— Colin S. Gray

The fundamental question is: 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm…

— George W. Bush

With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people,…

— Chuck Hagel

President Obama has made the Asia Pacific region a focus of his foreign policy, and Vietnam - a large, growing economy in…

— Ben Rhodes

My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep…

— George Washington

In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is…

— Daniel Yergin

The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of…

— Rand Paul

“At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights…

— Severine Autesserre

My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but…

— John F. Kerry

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

— Sidney Blumenthal

Indeed, for Russia, inconsistency is an integral part of its foreign policy strategy, particularly under Putin.

— Fiona Hill