John Bolton Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

  John Bolton

  Issues, People, World

• The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.

  John Bolton

  Small Numbers, People, Risk

  Source: humanevents.com

• The press tend to stick with that the people don't care about foreign policy in their daily lives and aren't concerned about it and so on and so forth. I don't think that's actually true.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.texastribune.org

• I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.

  John Bolton

  Attitude, Thinking, President

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

  John Bolton

  Believe, Bumper Sticker, Foreign Policy

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