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When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
— Hillary Clinton
I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.
— Charles H. Percy
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.
— Cynthia McKinney
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
— Eric Alterman
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
— Alexander Hamilton
The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
— Phil Ochs
Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.
— Margaret Beckett
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
— Robert Kagan
We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.
— Heather Wilson
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.
— David Letterman
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
— Sidney Blumenthal
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
— Michael Mandelbaum
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
— Sarah Palin
I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.
— George W. Bush
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
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
— Bob Woodward
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
— George F. Kennan
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
— Samantha Power
We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
— Ziggy Marley
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
— Georges Clemenceau
America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
— Henry Rollins
For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
— Tariq Ali
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
— Nate Silver
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
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
— Robert McNamara
How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?
— Charles M. Schulz
Foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.
— Fareed Zakaria
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
— Spiro T. Agnew
I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
— Peter Landesman
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
— John F. Kennedy
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
— Barack Obama
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
— John Major
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
— Michele Bachmann
Like how the government of General Abacha was using its foreign policy to legitimize itself in the eyes of other African countries.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
— Michael Mandelbaum
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
And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
— Mike Huckabee
We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
— John Howard
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
— Barbra Streisand
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[Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
— Michael Moore
I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to carry out a foreign policy not approved by the Jews.
— John Foster Dulles
Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.
— Garry Kasparov
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
— David Miliband
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[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.
— Emmett Tyrrell
Every foreign policy of every major nation involves reason, common sense, carrots and sticks. You can't have all carrots and no sticks.
— Fred Thompson
I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
— Herman Cain
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
— Charles Krauthammer
I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.
— Sam Brownback
Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.
— George Friedman
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.
— Stefan Halper
The United Nations had to be the cornerstone of our foreign policy.
— Joseph P. Lash
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.
— Timothy Garton Ash
Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age
— Joschka Fischer
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
— Henry Kissinger
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
— Keith O'Brien
Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.
— Salman Rushdie
A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.
— Alexander Hamilton
My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
— Michael Baumgartner
If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.
— Craig Nelson
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
— George F. Kennan
Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
— Rush Limbaugh
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.
— Bernard Lewis