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