Foreign Policy Quotes

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

If you know a country's geography,
you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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

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.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

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

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

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

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.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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.

The best ambassador is a warship.

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

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.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

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

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

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

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

We need to ensure that our foreign policy towards Cuba incentivizes and makes it easier for there to be a democratic transition. That is how I would examine our foreign policy towards Cuba.

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.

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.