Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 7

• There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Attitude, War

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Numbers, Experts, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Loyalty, Lists, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  New York, Cities, Rudolph

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am so profoundly aware of my lack of skill to make any material difference. I am not a doctor. I can't influence foreign policy. I can't build schools. I can't chemically engineer the protein paste that helps people with acute malnutrition. But I can talk about it, and so can you.

  Tom Hiddleston

  School, Doctors, Skills

  Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

  Donald Trump

  Mistake, Facts, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Russia, Isis

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• The biggest problem I have with the stupidity of our foreign policy, we have Mosul. They think a lot of the ISIS leaders are in Mosul. So we have announcements coming out of Washington and coming out of Iraq, we will be attacking Mosul in three weeks or four weeks. Well, all of these bad leaders from ISIS are leaving Mosul. Why can't they do it quietly?

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Isis, Iraq

  Second presidential debate, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Powerful, Military, Player

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• U.S. foreign policy is in every area impacted by ethnic groups of one sort or another as well as economic groups and regional groups.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Groups, Economic, Wells

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Half, Century, Made

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• You can see our media appearances as well as connect to Our Power to the People Agenda, Our Green New Deal, our plan to abolish student debt and our plan to actually create a whole new foreign policy based on international law and human rights.

  Jill Stein

  Media, Law, Rights

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

  Alan Greenspan

  Fun, Team, Next Day

  Source: www.today.com

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• I think it would be a threat [Donald's Trump presidency] to the conduct of our foreign policy and our position in the world at large.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Would Be, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

  Erich Fromm

  Today, Concern, Catastrophe

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.

  Joe Biden

  Care, Violence, Structure

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Talking, Presidential, Empires

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Links, Should

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

  Ralph Nader

  America, Destroying, Policy

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Challenges, Policy

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Numbers, Issues, People

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Those who believe that if someone who would want to radically change the foreign policy of a country such as the United States, which is very difficult, and often although some of us in here who may fear that this may happen, what we should be doing is build bridges, not walls.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Country, Wall, Believe

  Source: time.com

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• [Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

  Amy Goodman

  War, Iraq, Wikileaks

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

  T. D. Jakes

  Christian, Taken, Eye

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• The Hillary Clinton foreign policy has cost America thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars, and unleashed ISIS across the world.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, America, Dollars

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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