Quotes of: Foreign-affairs Keyword

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Stanley Hauerwas

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

William Hague

Smoke in your own country is purer than fire in a foreign land.

Lithuanian

The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures Of Henrietta And Her Foreign Correspondent

Need I say more?' 'No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.

Love and Other Foreign Words

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

The Poisonwood Bible

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Sarah Palin

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Townsend Harris

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

Michael Baumgartner

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

Michael Mandelbaum

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

Michael Mandelbaum

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Chris Matthews

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.

Frank Wolf

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.

Eric Alterman

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.

Oliver North

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Richard Armitage

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

Robert Toombs

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country...

Ira Glass