Us Foreign Policy Quotes:

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Peace, Honesty, War, Limiting Government, Interventionism

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Defeat, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Domestic Policy, Us Foreign Policy

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

- Alexander Hamilton

source: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.427

topic: Horse, Republic, Influence, Us Foreign Policy

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

- Jimmy Carter

topic: Rights, Soul, Foreign Policy, Individual Rights, Us Foreign Policy

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Rights, Weakness, Neutrality, Us Foreign Policy

I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.... And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don't want and above all don't want crammed down their throats by Americans.

- Michael Parenti

topic: Believe, Dirty, People, American Foreign Policy, Us Foreign Policy

I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

- Garry Kasparov

source: "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

topic: Secret, President, Facts, Us Foreign Policy

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

- Ilana Mercer

source: "Putin Saves Us From Ourselves". www.wnd.com. March 22, 2012.

topic: Men, Bully, World, Corners Of The World, Us Foreign Policy

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

- Michel Chossudovsky

source: "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

topic: War, Economic, Massacres, Rwanda, Us Foreign Policy

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ***** or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

- Harold Pinter

source: "Oh, Superman". Broadcast for "Opinion" on Channel 4 (May 31, 1990); later quoted in Harold Pinter "Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005" (pp. 198-199), 2005.

topic: Lying, Kissing, Add, Kiss My Ass, Masquerade

Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

- F. William Engdahl

topic: Oil, Iraq, Office, Central Asia, Us Foreign Policy

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

- Jamie Zawinski

topic: Leaving, Empires, Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, Us Foreign Policy