Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 11

• I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

  Charley Reese

  War, Race, Liberty

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• Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

  Gary North

  Philosophy, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Average, Iraq

  "Biden officially running for president". www.nbcnews.com. January 31, 2007..

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• Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

  Carlos Mesa

  Sea, Essentials, Direct

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• 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

  Democracy, Middle East, Administration

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• It is never easy to define what is moral, particularly in foreign policy. But at the risk of being simplistic, it appears to me that a foreign policy that is morally right protects human rights everywhere.

  Arthur Goldberg

  Rights, Risk, Moral

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• I think that it's very important to have the United States' engagement in many situations we have around the world, be it in Syria, be it in the African context. The United States represents an important set of values, human rights, values related to freedom, to democracy. And so the foreign policy engagement of the United States is a very important guarantee that those values can be properly pursued.

  Antonio Guterres

  Thinking, Democracy, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  Madeleine Albright

  Iraq, Numbers, Vietnam

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• But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

  Harry Browne

  Bullying, Hate, America

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• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Years, Fingers

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• I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

  Herman Cain

  Philosophy, People, Challenges

  "Herman Cain Tops New Polls, Causes Stir With Campaign Ad". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Committed, Wells, Humans

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• President Obama has earned my vote on the basis of his excellent judicial appointments, his consensus-building foreign policy and the improvements he has brought about in the disastrous economy he inherited.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Consensus Building, President, Improvement

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• I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Cia Agents

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• I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

  William Hague

  Idealism And Realism, Realism, Idealism

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• Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

  William Hague

  Decision, Would Be, Defining

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• Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, School, Play

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• 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

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

  John Bolton

  Believe, Bumper Sticker, Characterization

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• For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Best Job, World

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• I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Issues, Able

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• My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

  Michele Bachmann

  Views, United States, Needs

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 27, 2011.

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

  Russell Baker

  White, House, Victory

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• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wall, Wrecks, Oppression

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