Foreign policy Quotes · Page 8

The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

— Spiro T. Agnew

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

— Madeleine Albright

President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.

— Elise Stefanik

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

— Ted Cruz

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

— Alexander Hamilton

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

— Alexander Hamilton

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

— Michael Mandelbaum

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

— Jeffrey Sachs

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy…

— Ed Gillespie

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world…

— Robert Kagan

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on…

— Marco Rubio

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,'…

— Marco Rubio

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping…

— Christopher Bond

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

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Those who believe that if someone who would want to radically change the foreign policy of a country such as the United…

— Alexis Tsipras

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

In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and…

— Stephen F. Hayes

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

— George Washington

It should never be the goal of U.S. foreign policy towards any country to have a - quote, unquote - "good relation."…

— Michael McFaul

Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If you look at what the factors were going into the decision, of course there are competing interests and values. And one…

— Hillary Clinton

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

— Lee Zeldin

It's hard to overstate the lasting harm Mr. Tillerson's tenure will do to America's diplomacy.

— Antony Blinken

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

— Nicholas Stern

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

— David Ignatius

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.

— Jeb Bush

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

— Henry A. Kissinger

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy

— Brendan Fraser

Foreign policy is set by the president, you cannot vote for just anything.

— Javier Milei

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

— Pete Hoekstra

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

— Damian Lewis

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

— Crispin Blunt

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

— Robert Kagan

One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.

— Peter Navarro

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

— Alexander Hamilton