Foreign Policy Quotations

I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

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

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

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.

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

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

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

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

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

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

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

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

•“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.

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

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong.

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.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

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

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

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

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

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

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

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

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

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

If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

I get these lightweights like Marco Rubio, he gets up and says'Oh, Donald Trump didn't talk about foreign policy'.

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

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.

If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

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.

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

Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

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

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.