Foreign policy Quotes · Page 22

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

This comes from a group of people who've been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. They supported…

— Barack Obama

A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German…

— Margaret Thatcher

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only…

— Bashar al-Assad

They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our…

— Jeff Sessions

I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as…

— Joe Biden

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

— Chuck Todd

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same…

— Florence King

It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at…

— Michael Ignatieff

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

— Daniel Yergin

Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades,…

— Ron Paul

Despite unprecedented levels of technological advancement and the interconnectedness of the world, the pursuit of truth in the realms of foreign policy…

— Will Hurd

There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what…

— Michael Gerson

The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent…

— Robert McNamara

There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help…

— David Gergen

The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue…

— Garry Kasparov

The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could…

— Barack Obama

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Practically as soon as the towers hit the ground on Sept. 11, pundits of the left like Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag…

— Norah Vincent

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask…

— Ann Coulter

[Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean…

— William J. Clinton

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign…

— Matt Schlapp

A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist…

— Michael Parenti

Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to…

— Vaclav Klaus

I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now…

— Barack Obama

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are…

— Jimmy Carter

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign…

— John Podhoretz

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

— Timothy McVeigh

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most…

— Allard K. Lowenstein

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the…

— Nelson Mandela

When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.

— H. W. Brands

On the foreign policy side, there's the risk of being too spontaneous and too disruptive where you end up doing more harm…

— Robert M. Gates

Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the…

— Glenn Greenwald

I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and…

— Vladimir Putin

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in…

— Ashton Carter

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized…

— William Howard Taft

If I happen to be the only Jewish Republican, and I am as a result able to advocate for a stronger, more…

— Lee Zeldin

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting…

— George Bernard Shaw