Quotes of: Foreign-policy Keyword

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Bianca Jagger

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.

A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes

How can Sophie hate Josh tonight when Friday morning she loved him?' I ask. What I mean is How can I have had such strong feelings for Ethan when now I don't know what I feel aside from overwhelming mortification?

Love and Other Foreign Words

It’s the bonds forged over baijiu, more than anything else, that keep me coming back for another ganbei despite the hiccups, figurative and literal. You can learn more about someone after three shots of baijiu than in years of sober tea sipping.

Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

Why was I still traveling? Was it purely because it was better than turning around and going home, where I would have to make grown-up choices about my future? Or was I waiting to happen across a place that would tell me to stay?

Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China

We all have our patchwork ideas of India, our notions and opinions and prejudices–often fallacious and absurd–of this enormous, disparate country, which, as I take pleasure in reminding newcomers, bigger in population than all but its own contine...

A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes

This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.

Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalanc...

Timothy Geithner

Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a lo...

Eric Schmidt

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 an...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I have a no-apology policy.

Kathy Griffin

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we...

Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

I'm not entirely sure there is a formula for this,' I say. But I wish there were. I would have followed it, plugging in all my data for x and all of Ethan's for y. And I would have worked out the results before involving my emotions, and I wouldn't f...

Love and Other Foreign Words

The Egyptians are inferior only to themselves. In all other styles we can trace a rapid ascent from infancy, founded on some bygone style, to a culminating point of perfection, when the foreign influence was modified or discarded, to a period of slow...

Owen Jones Classics

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

Alden Nowlan

If two parties with two sets of bad ideas cooperate, the result is not good policy, but policy that is extremely bad. What we really need are correct economic and politcal ideas, regardless of the party that pushes them.

Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Malcolm Wallop

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

William Hague