Foreign Quotes
Managing in a foreign country will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that doesn't come along that often
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.
The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.
A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.
I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.
Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
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.
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.
Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.
I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.
American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.
While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.
