Foreign policy Quotes · Page 6

We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?”

— Lorrie Moore

U.S. energy policy is about far more than jobs and the economy. It is a critical component of our foreign policy.

— Will Hurd

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

— Rush Limbaugh

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

— Robert McNamara

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

— Madeleine Albright

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

— Ron Paul

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

— William Hague

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak,…

— Ben Shapiro

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation…

— Robert Dallek

Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they…

— Condoleezza Rice

Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

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

I think as people find out about my foreign policy, what they're going to find out is that I'm right in the…

— Lindsey Graham

In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's…

— Chris Murphy

“The essence of foreign policy, is deciding which son of a bitch to support -in 1941, Hitler or Stalin; in 1972, Brezhnev…

— Charles Krauthammer

The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to…

— Dave Barry

No matter what people may think about American foreign policy, there is broad and overwhelming interest in engaging with the United States…

— Ben Rhodes

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really…

— Hillary Clinton

Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise.…

— James M. Lindsay

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign…

— William Blum

A group of national security experts, military intelligence experts, issued a very concerning statement about Senator Bernie Sanders's views on foreign policy…

— Hillary Clinton

No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is…

— Barack Obama

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at…

— Jon Stewart

“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope…

— Charles Emmerson

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

— Alexander Hamilton

“The United Nations had to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy.”

— Joseph P. Lash

Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

— Margaret Thatcher

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

— Henry A. Kissinger

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

— George W. Bush

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

— George Washington

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

— John McCain

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

— James Clapper

The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

— Donald Trump

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

— Tony Blair

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

— Howard Zinn

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

— Donald Trump

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

— Alexander Hamilton

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

— Ernest Bevin