Foreign Policy Quotes

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

Defeat, Policy, Foreign

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Ron Paul

Why, Wonder, Maybe

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul

Humble, Win, Year

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
Barack Obama

Work, History, Done

I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.
Ron Paul

Time, Hard, Person

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

Last, Knew, Happening

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul

War, Stop, Republican

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
Ron Paul

War, Strong, Nothing

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

Policy, Foreign, Hat

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

Human, American, Security

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government, Else, Whatever

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter

Human, Soul, Sense

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

Success, Matter, Chance

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

American, Temptation, Policy

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

American, Principles, Policy

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.
Rush Limbaugh

Eyes, Before, Security

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

Laugh, Policy, Foreign

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Charles Stanley

American, Might, Military

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
Madeleine Albright

Hope, Greatest, Wrong

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
Harry Belafonte

Made, American, Africa

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

Good, Home, Government

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
Madeleine Albright

Best, Job, Happen

We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Respect, Others, Short

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.
Madeleine Albright

Women, Done, Able

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

Finding, Policy, Foreign

We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
Pat Robertson

President, Policy, Foreign

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
John Podhoretz

Leadership, Doubt, Him

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.
John Podhoretz

American, Almost, Wants

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.
Herman Cain

Peace, Strength, Philosophy

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

Cannot, View, Policy

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