Foreign Quotes
1571 quotes by 1139 authors
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Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go…
— Elliott Abrams
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In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
— Elliott Abrams
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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to…
— Elliott Abrams
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general…
— Elliott Abrams
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There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
— Elliott Abrams
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In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the…
— Elliott Abrams
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If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man…
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty…
— Seth Berkley
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America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And…
— Michael Oren
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In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.
— Kathleen Troia McFarland
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Over 600 Indian companies have opened their offices in U.K. and have secured the second highest number of jobs by a foreign employer in the…
— Preneet Kaur
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The Tunisian blogger and activist Sami Ben Gharbia has written passionately about how U.S. government involvement in grassroots digital spaces can endanger those who are…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
— Israel Horovitz
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Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some…
— Susan Minot
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I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting,…
— John le Carre
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Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S.…
— Frank Wolf
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Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.
— Robert Dallek
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A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.
— Robert Dallek
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