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The cultification of an imperialist invasion of a foreign nation that Australia had no quarrel with is against all ideals of modern society. — Scott McIntyre

I'd rather live like a beggar in my own country, than like a king in a foreign land. — R.L. Bartram

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. — Eric Hobsbawm

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. — Augusten Burroughs

Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don't have to buy from a foreign source. — Rick Perry

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. — John McCain

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. — Deb Caletti

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. — Ann Richards

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest. — Dean Acheson

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister. — Eduard Shevardnadze

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. — Kevin Rudd

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. — Ed O'Brien

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. — Alexis Tsipras

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. — Corazon Aquino

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right. — Peter Landesman

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. — Damian Lewis

If we don't establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. — Sunday Adelaja

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

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours. — Ernest Bevin

Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues. — John McCain

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise. — Samantha Power

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

Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it. — Jakub Marian

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. — Russell Baker

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy. — Richard Engel

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. — Rand Paul

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. — Ellen Willis

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. — Thomas Jefferson

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster. — Charles Krauthammer

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit. — Alexander Hamilton

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. — Lawrence Eagleburger

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. — John Dingell

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language. — Marcel Proust

Washington trusted Lafayette, but he trusted no foreign power, even America's ally. The — David A. Clary

The issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I kept my plan simple: leave my comfort zone, work in a foreign city, enjoy some uninhibited fun, and return home in one year. — Torre DeRoche

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. — C.V. Wedgwood

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. — Emmett Tyrrell

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. — William Ewart Gladstone

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' — Henrik Ibsen

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests. — Howard Berman

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt. — John Key

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value. — William Petty

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment. — Milton Friedman

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries. — Tina Brown

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson

Janet was in charge of relations with foreign powers - Quentin called her Fillory Clinton. — Lev Grossman

World news carefully edited so that it's not too disturbing, but disturbing enough to make you glad that you weren't born in a foreign country. — Anonymous

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you! — Barbara Kingsolver

A woman is a foreign land. — Coventry Patmore

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves. — Julia Kristeva

Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though it's not legal. — Paul Watson

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo. — Sally Rand

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China. — John Howard

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country — Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President. — Barbra Streisand

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, — Yehuda Amichai

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. — James K. Polk

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors. — Chow Yun-Fat

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world. — Carrie Brownstein

I wanted a normal life, but normal was as foreign to me as a super bowl ring was to Tony Romo. — Angela McPherson

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. — Mae West

We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy. — Sebastian Coe

With an utterly foreign sense of desperation, he did something that he'd never, in all his thirty-three years, thought he would do. He tripped her. — Rhyannon Byrd

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art. — E.L. James

Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign. — Robert Pittenger

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. — Iman

Refuse to feel foreign on your own planet. — Ben Tolosa

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. — Robert Bourassa

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem. — McGeorge Bundy

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs. — Woodrow Wilson

In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was. — Mohsin Hamid

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices. — Alexander Hamilton

Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger — Tony Pulis

Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone. — Markus Zusak

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo

Kidding?" He asked; rolling the foreign word over in his mouth like he tasted something sour.
"Yeah, you know. Joking. Ha ha ha." I said. — Micalea Smeltzer

Wanderlust consumed her; foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her. She had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown. — Unknown

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington. — John Kenneth Galbraith

If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. — Nate Silver

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor. — Paul Broun

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you. — Farah Diba

I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about. — Lisa Cholodenko

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . . — Terry Pratchett

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. — Henry A. Kissinger

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. — Condoleezza Rice

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

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. — Mike Lee

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. — Ron Paul