This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.
There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.
When in doubt, Gallop! (Proverb of the French Foreign Legion)
Slowly but surely the excrement of foreign poets will come to your village.
Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'
Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.
Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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.
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.
