Foreign Quotes

1571 Foreign quotes by 1108 unique authors

We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy. — Ron Paul
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
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
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
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
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
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
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. — William E. Gladstone
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
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
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
If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire… — Mitch Daniels
Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come… — Larry David
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in… — Howard Dean
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… — Jacques Derrida
President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about… — Alan Dershowitz
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to… — Cameron Diaz
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. — Benjamin Disraeli
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. — Marguerite Duras
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far… — Lawrence Eagleburger
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,… — Barbara Ehrenreich

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