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Foreign Policy Quotes

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Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Alexander Hamilton

Authors on Foreign Policy Quotes: Madeleine Albright Alexander Hamilton Henry A. Kissinger Thomas Jefferson Franklin D. Roosevelt Ron Paul Marco Rubio George W. Bush David Brooks Ralph Nader Narendra Modi Margaret Thatcher Donald Trump Joe Biden Ashraf Ghani Erich Fromm Geraldine Ferraro Bill O'Reilly Michelle J. Howard George F. Kennan Robert McNamara David Letterman John Bolton Irving Kristol William Hague Carlos Mesa James M. Cain Oliver Stone Brendan Fraser Mick Jagger Tom Metzger David Corn John F. Kennedy
2.
If you know a country's geography,
you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

3.
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
Robert McNamara

4.
During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.
Ron Paul

5.
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
Spiro T. Agnew

6.
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Georges Clemenceau

7.
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
George F. Kennan

8.
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
James M. Cain

9.
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

10.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power

11.
The best ambassador is a warship.
Michelle J. Howard

12.
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

13.
Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.
Condoleezza Rice

14.
I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.
Paul Ryan

15.
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
Hubert H. Humphrey

16.
I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.
George W. Bush

17.
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

18.
Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
Carlos Mesa

19.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy

20.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
Irving Kristol

21.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry A. Kissinger

22.
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.
Erich Fromm

23.
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

24.
Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.
Mick Jagger

25.
I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
Herman Cain

26.
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.
David Letterman

27.
The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran.
Geoff Dyer

28.
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Brendan Fraser

29.
I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Geraldine Ferraro

30.
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

31.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Damian Lewis

32.
the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
Madeleine Albright

33.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
Joe Biden

34.
I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague

35.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger

36.
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
Alexander Hamilton

37.
I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We've had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn't gotten us anywhere.
Robert M. Gates

38.
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
John Bolton

39.
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

40.
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

41.
Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.
Margaret Thatcher

42.
If the Sharia was to be implemented elsewhere, and, as part of its foreign policy, it would remove the operators in the way of preventing the Sharia.
Anjem Choudary

43.
Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.
Ralph Nader

44.
Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other.
Ronald Reagan

45.
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Joe Biden

46.
Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
Rush Limbaugh

47.
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
Charles Krauthammer

48.
Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
Thomas Jefferson

49.
I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.
Donald Trump

50.
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
William Pfaff