Our Foreign Quotes
31 quotes by 30 authors
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy…
— Harry Belafonte
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us…
— John O. Brennan
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I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to…
— Madeleine Albright
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
— Jimmy Carter
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us…
— Alan K. Simpson
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Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since…
— J. William Fulbright
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I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
— Thomas Jefferson
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[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.
— Ron Paul
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
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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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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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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is…
— Ed Gillespie
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Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can,…
— John Foster Dulles
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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in…
— Alice Hamilton
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Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 Â months of last…
— Ramon Magsaysay
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There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check…
— Will Rogers
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Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations,…
— David Brooks
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign…
— John Sununu
Who Wrote These Our Foreign Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 31 Our Foreign Quotes, led by these top contributors: