Foreign Policy Quotes

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

The best ambassador is a warship.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

We have to engage in a dialogue with Donald Trump because he is the elected president of the United States of America. But we have to emphatically oppose his foreign policy ideas.

I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.