Foreign policy Quotes · Page 4

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

— Thomas Jefferson

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

— William M. Daley

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

— Tim Ryan

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

— Geraldine Ferraro

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

— Ralph Nader

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

— Samantha Power

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

— George W. Bush

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

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

— Ziggy Marley

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

— Sidney Blumenthal

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

“He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,”

— Michael Wolff

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

— Erin O'Toole

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests…

— Rick Larsen

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If…

— Condoleezza Rice

I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the…

— William Weld

I'm a good leader. I'm a good executive. I've been outside the U.S. a few times, and I've done a little bit…

— Stacey Abrams

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at…

— Ron Paul

In a climate where much of foreign policy is a direct function of domestic politics, focusing on what one doesn't want is…

— Hassan Rouhani

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

— Jehane Noujaim

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

— Rand Paul

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a…

— Mohsin Hamid

It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are…

— Tariq Ramadan

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it.…

— Jeff Sessions

The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,…

— John Pilger

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its…

— Jim Mattis

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

— Walter Karp

“to the American power elite one of the longest lasting and most essential foreign policy goals has been preventing the rise of…

— William Blum

Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of…

— Barack Obama

About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot…

— Gioconda Belli

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as…

— Geoff Dyer

I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader…

— Barack Obama

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

“...it is a different matter entirely to commit military resources to keep peace in such areas, where often no peace can be…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded…

— Munir Butt

“The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in…

— Nadje Al-Ali