Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 19

• I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Thinking, America, Upset

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

  Philip Gordon

  Thinking, People, Praise

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Should, Platforms

  Source: thesaker.is

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• I have criticized foreign policy, but that does not mean that we should agree with everything. Indeed, we criticize a lot of things, we think that our partners make many mistakes [may be we make mistakes too, no one is immune to making mistakes], but as for the economy, I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  Source: thesaker.is

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• If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Thinking, Want

  Source: russialist.org

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• The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Action, Reputation

  Source: russialist.org

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• We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are no institutional structures to render justice. The press is very limited. There's very little transparency. You find a symmetry in certain basic human tendencies, and these tendencies are not always noble or beautiful. I think we have an instinct to turn away from that, to not acknowledge it, while it is something that's a part of us. There's a certain tragic and sad side to human nature that, in our quest for beauty, we ignore.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Beautiful, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Independent

  Source: russialist.org

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• The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Struggle, Political

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

  Tony Blair

  Past, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.

  Tony Blair

  Views, Years, Policy Making

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Steve Hadley is an interesting option as secretary of state because he is somebody that is, you know, familiar to power, served in the White House, and did not oppose Donald Trump the way a lot of the Republican foreign policy establishment did. But his name was not on that list, at least at the moment.

  Susan Page

  Interesting, House, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

  Mark Shields

  Principles, United States, Unions

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Today, World

  "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did" by Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

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• We're in a mess in America, and it's because of what you think. We're in a mess because of your party. We're in a mess, Mrs. Clinton, because you've been there. You were responsible for this economy. You're responsible our foreign policy. You're responsible for the massive illegal immigration.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people.

  Burhan Ghalioun

  League, People, Decision

  "Syria Opposition Leader Interview". The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.

  Michael T. Flynn

  People, National Security, Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The world has never known the freedom and liberty it did until the United States some 230 years ago - and if that light is extinguished, then it's over for the resolute world as well. There's nowhere else. That has been a tenet of American foreign policy from the beginning, the recognition of liberty and freedom as essential to the human condition as created by God.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Liberty, World, Recognition

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am different from Putin, that Russia should not isolate itself. Everything that happens in our country is justified through Syria or Ukraine. But when one's own citizens only make 300 euros, one can't have much clout in foreign policy.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Different, Justified

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My hope is the Trump administration will approach Russia strategically, with a clear purpose of trying to find more common ground, but without giving up on fundamental values and principles that are at the core of the United States' foreign policy.

  John F. Kerry

  Giving Up, Trying, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons ­nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There is some of the paradox of foreign policy polling. So on Iraq and Syria, the President is pretty much doing what Americans want, he's not very engaged, but they don't like the results, his polling numbers are going down. Americans may be ambivalent and disengaged with the world, they don't want a President who is ambivalent and disengaged with the world.

  Michael Gerson

  President, World, Paradox

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Sharia has a ruling system, an economic system, a policy and social system, a foreign policy and judiciary system to be implemented, you know, the whole package. Under the Sharia, food, shelter and clothing will be provided for all citizens in addition to basic necessities like gas and water as well. But, it's not like communism or socialism in the respect that you can work for the luxuries.

  Anjem Choudary

  Water, Socialism, Communism

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Order, Political, Done

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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