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.
If a policy isn’t working, don’t change the policy—change its name. That should be taught in Politics 101.
Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
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.
Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
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.
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental 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.
We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.
From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good 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.
I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.
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.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
