Foreign policy Quote by Irving Kristol

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

— Henry A. Kissinger

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

— Damian Lewis

The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.

— Pete Hoekstra

We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

— Ernest Bevin

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united…

— A. J. P. Taylor

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'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

— Herman Cain

A transactional foreign policy is not what convinces people around the world to stand with America.

— Tom Malinowski

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

— Erin O'Toole