Foreign policy Quotes · Page 9

I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

— Donald Trump

We need to put human rights, a belief in multilateralism and respect for international law back at the heart of foreign policy.

— Emily Thornberry

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s.

— Barack Obama

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

— Marco Rubio

American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.

— Peter Bergen

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

— James Reston

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

— Nat Hentoff

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”

— Kenneth Pollack

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

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot…

— Noam Chomsky

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

For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think this is a part of John McCain that a lot of people don't know about, is that he took younger…

— Susan Collins

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions…

— Barack Obama

Pakistan is, I always feel, hopeful. You know, our system of government is not, and the system of foreign policy whereby we…

— Fatima Bhutto

What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except…

— Nancy Pelosi

I spoke with Gerhard Schröder about a lot of things, including foreign policy. Schröder knows how important European policy is to me…

— Martin Schulz

A nation as such does not give aid to another nation. More precisely, the common citizens of our country, through their taxes,…

— Michael Parenti

“When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business"…

— Madeleine Albright

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

— Ted Cruz

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

— Bob Woodward

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

— Anonymous

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

— George W. Bush

On a global scale, the way Trump talks about dealing with foreign policy is very scary.

— Alexander Skarsgard

Americans in general, I think, don't understand the weight and gravity of foreign policy and how to engage the world at large.

— George P. Bush

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

— Anonymous

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed…

— Tom Metzger

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

— Irving Kristol

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Henry Rollins

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

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