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“What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish. Or, failing that, money.”

— Claudia Gray

“Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that…

— Sarah Palin

Sometimes that Dutch consensus approach doesn't move you forward fast enough.

— Frans van Houten

“Nothing is more striking to an European traveller in the United States than the absence of what we term the Government, or the Administration.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Inward-looking unilateral trade policies invite retaliation.

— Arancha Gonzalez

“It would assume that bilateral problems could be worked out through goodwill, active diplomacy and transparency rather than suspicions and a search for “enemies.”

— Graham E. Fuller

This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and…

— Gerhard Schroder

I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.

— Richard Grenell

“By 1971 the United States had an unfavorable balance of international trade for the first time since 1893.”

— James T. Patterson

“I am afraid that as a nation we tend to over-organise. Abroad that passes for efficiency.”

— John le Carré

We want the Netherlands to leave the E.U., join EFTA and, like Switzerland, negotiate bilateral trade agreements with the E.U. and the rest of…

— Geert Wilders

“But harder heads saw another advantage in taking sides in a distant struggle: Britain and France owed massive debts to American companies. If the…

— Joseph E. Persico