The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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.
But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.
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.
I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.
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.
I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wan...
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.
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.
Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.
One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.
The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
