Foreign Quotes
1571 quotes by 1108 authors
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I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in…
— Jimmy Carter
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Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations,…
— David Brooks
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I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to…
— Sloane Crosley
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I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us…
— Willie Geist
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Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that…
— David Byrne
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We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.
— Ron Paul
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went…
— Jodie Foster
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When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a…
— Thomas Frank
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites…
— Al Franken
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Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old…
— Robert M. Gates
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to…
— Paul Gillmor
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William E. Gladstone
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy…
— Michael Gove
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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity…
— Emma Goldman
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If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries…
— Al Gore
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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