Foreign Quotes

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Ella Maillart

Learn, Wanted, Few

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.
Kevin Rudd

Job, Trying, Policy

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
Wendell Willkie

True, Country, Matter

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.
Lindsey Graham

Republican, Aid, Ranking

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
Talib Kweli

Politics, Illusion, Role

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.
Mitch Daniels

Energy, Become, Taking

But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
Mitch Daniels

Peace, Strength, Friends

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
Mitch Daniels

Peace, Strength, Friends

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need.
Emilio Estevez

Country, Idea, Walk

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
Angela Merkel

Live, Reality, Country

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
Richard Cobden

Education, Peace, Freedom

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
Robert Mueller

Purpose, Warrants

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
Arabella Weir

Life, Father, Fact

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Business, Help, Important

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
Wilbur Smith

Future, Reality, Country

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'
Graham Norton

Gay, Feelings, Thought

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
Gary Bauer

Important, After, American

'Know your enemy, name your enemy' is a 9/11 message that has gone unheeded. Our immigration and homeland security policies refuse to profile jihadi adherents at foreign consular offices and at our borders.
Michelle Malkin

Enemy, Security, Name

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Peace, Human, Why

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.
Freida Pinto

Important, Proud, Actress

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.
Howard Dean

Truth, Die, Why

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.
Evelyn Glennie

Music, Real, Bored

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Michael Mandelbaum

Political, Around, American

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum

American, United, Policy

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino

Freedom, Long, Journey

Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.
David Miliband

Change, Same, Both

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould

Science, Human, Done

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
Mark Haddon

Small, Write, Within

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon

Country, America, American

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay

Wish, Ocean, Avoid

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