quotes about Foreign Policy
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Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy
-- Brendan Fraser -
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Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
-- Carlos Mesa -
I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party,
-- Charles H. Percy -
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
-- Damian Lewis -
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War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
-- George F. Kennan -
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
-- George Washington -
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
-- Georges ClemenceauSource : Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918
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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
-- Geraldine Ferraro -
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I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
-- Herman CainSource : "Cain took campaign on wild ride through Wisconsin" by Craig Gilbert, archive.jsonline.com. November 15, 2011.
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
-- Irving KristolSource : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
-- James M. CainSource : "Literature's DNA" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.
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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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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
-- Joe Biden -
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
-- John Bolton -
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
-- John Foster Dulles -
I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
-- Maajid Nawaz -
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For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
-- Madeleine Albright -
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.
-- Nicholas Stern -
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
-- Robert McNamaraSource : "Rumsfeld Makes McNamara Look Good" by Maureen Dowd, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 13, 2011.
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Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
-- Samantha Power -
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
-- Spiro T. AgnewSource : John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
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Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.
-- Tom Metzger -
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
-- William Hague -
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
-- William PfaffSource : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 146, 1989.
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I think that Donald Trump, how many times during the campaign did he tell us that his plan for dealing with foreign policy was to be unpredictable? Well, there we have it.
-- Karen TumultySource : Source: www.pbs.org
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We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.
-- Martin Schulz -
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Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.
-- Michael T. Flynn -
On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama is not a confrontational man. He stayed away from all confrontations, and you can look and see what happened overseas. It's a mess everywhere. So he made major mistakes, major policy mistakes. Those mistakes are not going to be forgiven by history.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn`t true, he kept saying again and again and again.
-- David CornSource : Source: www.msnbc.com
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The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.
-- Don Feder -
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One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
-- Julianne MalveauxSource : Source: www.democracynow.org
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I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.
-- Maajid Nawaz