Foreign Quotes

1571 Foreign quotes by 1108 unique authors

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid… — Jackson Pollock
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over… — Wendell Willkie
No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that,… — Joe Biden
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve… — Jim Clyburn
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed… — Bronislaw Malinowski
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that… — Eliot Spitzer
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this… — George F. Kennan
Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. — Cleveland Amory
An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition. — Benjamin Tucker
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s… — Alan Moore
In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the… — Lupe Fiasco
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. — John Dingell
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...… — Milton Friedman
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the… — Ayn Rand
There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years.… — Jay Rockefeller
I know the power of the Israeli lobby and the other lobbies, but we need a foreign policy that puts our own country first. — Pat Buchanan
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated,… — Kent Conrad
Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules.… — Thomas Sankara
After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my… — Annie Oakley
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal… — Nick Rahall
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is… — Giuseppe Mazzini

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