Foreign Policy Quotes

363 Foreign Policy quotes by 213 unique authors

It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops… — Scott McClellan
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure… — Victor Davis Hanson
While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in a conflict in Syria – half a world away from the United… — Robert D. Kaplan
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks. — Fred Thompson
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. — Cynthia McKinney
Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to… — Alan Wolfe
Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. — Timothy McVeigh
I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when… — Tony Blair
But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public… — Noam Chomsky
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age — Joschka Fischer
I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when… — Walter Isaacson
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre Dame University in… — Rush Limbaugh
George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy. — Brad Sherman
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol
American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country… — Denis Halliday
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of… — Noam Chomsky
Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People… — William Blum
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. — James M. Cain
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and… — Romano Prodi
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees… — Stephen F. Hayes
Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the… — Victor Davis Hanson
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to… — George F. Kennan
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a… — Michael Mandelbaum
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even… — Jacques Chirac
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must… — John Boyd Orr

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