Foreign Quotes

1571 Foreign quotes by 1108 unique authors

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. — Gus Van Sant
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize… — Tom Vilsack
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is… — Yoshihiko Noda
I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are… — Yoshihiko Noda
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea. — Lee Myung-bak
Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security… — Peer Steinbruck
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. — David Miliband
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not… — Michael Gove
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema. — Luc Dardenne
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they… — David K. Shipler
Well, Mr Obama inherited probably the biggest inventory of problems, certainly foreign policy problems, than any American president ever has. I think the entire inventory… — Chuck Hagel
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the… — Chuck Hagel
The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within… — Pete Sessions
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools… — Jane Asher
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most… — Geraldine Brooks
When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both… — Paul Broun
Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement.… — Dennis C. Blair
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight… — Christina Romer
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All… — Maria Semple
We will never abdicate the security of the United States to a foreign country or refrain from taking action when appropriate. But we cannot ignore… — John O. Brennan
People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying… — Norman Finkelstein
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators,… — Anthony Lewis
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements… — Samantha Power
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders… — Samantha Power
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught… — Derek Bok

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