Foreign policy Quotes · Page 10

Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

— Margaret Beckett

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

— Aaron McGruder

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

— George W. Bush

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

— Condoleezza Rice

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

— Michele Bachmann

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

— Charles Krauthammer

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— John Bolton

Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the…

— Elliott Abrams

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal…

— Chris Murphy

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance…

— Oliver North

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world…

— Mike Pence

The advancement of democracy and human rights is as serious a business as anything we do in our foreign policy and cannot…

— Tom Malinowski

The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this…

— Harry Reid

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been…

— Willie Geist

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

— Michael McFaul

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

— George Washington

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

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

“Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world's second-largest economy, without the political will…

— Wang Yizhou

Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing…

— Barack Obama

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

— Alexis Tsipras

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan…

— John Bolton

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

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

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

— Sarah Palin

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

— Jon Stewart

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

— Cynthia McKinney

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party,

— Charles H. Percy

The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

— David Letterman

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

— Richard N. Haass

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

— Margarita Simonyan

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

— Nate Silver

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

— Joe Biden

China has a more assertive, proactive foreign policy as its interests are growing around the world.

— Henry Paulson