Foreign policy Quotes · Page 8

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

— Jimmy Carter

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

— David Brooks

I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

— Ralph Nader

Maybe Hillary Clinton was right in 2008 when she called Barack Obama 'naive' on foreign policy.

— Richard Grenell

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

— John Bolton

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

The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and…

— Jeb Bush

Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it…

— Tony Blair

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a…

— George W. Bush

I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up…

— Tony Blair

If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to…

— Nina Easton

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how…

— Paul Wolfowitz

One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to…

— Ted Gup

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like…

— Mark Danner

The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There…

— Anthony Eden

We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they…

— Marco Rubio

I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown…

— Madeleine Albright

The long-standing, non-partisan and publicly-declared foreign policy commitment of the United States is clear. We will do whatever is required to prevent…

— Elijah Cummings

Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think…

— Chuck Hagel

Now, I can't help but feel inferior. When I'm out in public in Afghanistan, I feel inferior because I'm doing everything I…

— Beth Murphy

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

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

— Gustav Stresemann

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

— Eric Alterman

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

— Jon Stewart

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 am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these…

— Barack Obama

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

— Henry Rollins

Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.

— Ronald Reagan

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

— Don Feder

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

— Winston Churchill

“Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.”

— Jack Woodford

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