Foreign policy Quotes · Page 7

I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own…

— Pat Buchanan

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the…

— David Miliband

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

— Brad Sherman

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

— Vladimir Putin

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

— Herman Cain

“A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one’s arse from one’s elbow.”

— Cleveland Amory

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

— George Packer

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

The foreign policy, you have to know how to pick and choose. There's no way, if Saddam [Hussein] had not had weapons…

— John Kasich

I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We've had three administrations follow a pretty consistent…

— Robert M. Gates

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to…

— Richard Armitage

“Effective foreign policy has always involved the use of both sticks and carrots, and finding the right balance between the two is…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed…

— Richard Armitage

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people,…

— Chuck Hagel

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

— Richard N. Haass

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida…

— Lawton Chiles

Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative…

— Noam Chomsky

If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS...they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is…

— Lindsey Graham

One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-…

— John F. Kennedy

This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and…

— David Corn

First of all, we occupied Afghanistan and Iraq and I'm not even talking about the past occupation of them, I'm just talking…

— Oren Moverman

Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead,…

— Ben Shapiro

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

— Hillary Clinton

The foreign policy of the United States rests entirely on propagandistic lies.

— Paul Craig Roberts

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

— Thomas Jefferson

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

— Michael Parenti

Trump's biggest success in his first term has been his foreign policy agenda.

— Mollie Hemingway

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

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