Balance Quote by Robert M. Gates

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

— Jimmy Carter

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…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will…

— Robert Dallek

There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it…

— Lord Chesterfield

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other…

— Vladimir Putin

Every person should take a lesson from history. We should understand that wherever there have been internal fights and conflicts in the country, the…

— Rajiv Gandhi

It's always a balance... being clear-headed but being aggressive and as combative as you need to be.

— Owen Farrell

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

— Samantha Power

Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to…

— Wendell Berry

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

— Madeleine Albright

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

— Thomas Friedman