Barack Quote by Barack Obama

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

— William Hague

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

— Rand Paul

“the president’s views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.”

— Michael Wolff

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

— Bob Woodward

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

— George W. Bush

Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the…

— Elliott Abrams

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

— Mitt Romney

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to:…

— Chuck Hagel

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the…

— Elliott Abrams

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

— Ted Lieu

The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but on self-denial…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski