There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.
