Foreign Policy Quotes
363 Foreign Policy quotes by 213 unique authors
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Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
— Herman Cain
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There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular…
— John Haynes Holmes
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We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent…
— Hu Jintao
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One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.
— Stefan Halper
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U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives…
— Richard Armitage
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Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East,…
— Unknown Author
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic…
— Joe Klein
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The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl,…
— Menzies Campbell
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The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the…
— Robert Reich
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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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The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
— Ward Churchill
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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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
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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
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer…
— Samantha Power
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Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it…
— Sister Souljah
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When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have to worry. If you’re not…
— James M. Cain
Who Wrote These Foreign Policy Quotes
213 authors contributed a total of 363 Foreign Policy Quotes, led by these top contributors: