Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 11

• I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

  Willie Geist

  Thinking, Iraq, President

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy.

  Ron Paul

  Military, Needs, Said

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Today, Translate, Isolationism

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• There's this kind of almost - kind of a weird kind of elitism that says well maybe - maybe certain people in certain parts of the world shouldn't be free; maybe it's best just to let them sit in these tyrannical societies. And our foreign policy rejects that concept. And we don't accept it. And so we're working.

  George W. Bush

  People, World, Kind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuclear Iran

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Apology, Opportunity, America

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• foreign policy is about trying to project the European model, its values, its principles, to the outside world. But at the moment, the European model is not as fascinating and as attractive as it may have been a few years ago. We have to be aware of this and take it into account when we try to promote our European system.

  Pierre Vimont

  Years, Europe, Trying

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• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  F. William Engdahl

  Oil, Iraq, Office

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• American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

  Howard Berman

  Israel, Support, Unequivocal

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

  Nicholas Stern

  World, Claims, Extensions

  "Nicholas Stern: One global crisis after another" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2008.

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• I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.

  George Voinovich

  Years, Four, Want

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• No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

  Rich Lowry

  Politics, Nukes, Matter

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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

  Politics, Administration, Would Be

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• Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

  Cleveland Amory

  Girl, President, Remember

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• I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Committees, Policy

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• I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Men, President, Vices

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• We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

  Florence King

  Nice, Government, Differences

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.82, Macmillan

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• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Sea, Presidential, Mind

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• Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Economic Value, Iran, Oil

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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  Ed Gillespie

  Moving, Self, September 11

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• Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

  Richard Armitage

  White, House, Wish

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• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, United States

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• China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Independent, Peaceful

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Believe, Thinking

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, World, Stability

  "A frugal superpower’s rules" by Michael Mandelbaum, www.japantimes.co.jp. OCtober 20, 2010.

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