Foreign Affairs Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because…
— Kevin Rudd
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We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
— Richard Lugar
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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
— Walter Lippmann
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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation…
— John F. Kennedy
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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
— Winston Churchill
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We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency,…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
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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
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because…
— William Blum
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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a…
— Talib Kweli
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Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.
— Richard Kerry
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The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand -…
— David K. Shipler
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As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all…
— Laurent Lamothe
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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
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
— Nelson Mandela
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Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing…
— Tom Waits
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