Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 4

• Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

  Marco Rubio

  White, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.

  Ruben Gallego

  Military, Home, Keys

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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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• Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

  Joe Biden

  Party, Successful, Winning

  "Biden's Brief" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Presidential, Bitterness

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I like Mitt Romney as a person. I think he's a dignified person. But I have no common ground on economics. He doesn't worry about the Federal Reserve. He doesn't worry about foreign policy. He doesn't talk about civil liberties, so I would have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Hard Times, Worry

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• There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, War, Believe

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• Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

  Ron Paul

  War, Party, Thinking

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

  John Podhoretz

  America, Choices, Doubt

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• Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Obamacare, Pro Life

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• American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

  Samantha Power

  Order, Long, Justice

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• Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

  Samantha Power

  Enterprise, Policy

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• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  Samantha Power

  Rights, Presidential, Political

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• In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the issues of foreign policy and defense are fully in the hands of the president.

  Vladimir Putin

  Hands, Issues, President

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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• On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

  Carroll Quigley

  New York, Practice, London

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• We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.

  Pat Robertson

  President, Want, Failing

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• White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Military, White, Issues

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• We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Respect, Military, Safety

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• American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

  Charles Stanley

  Military, Opportunity, Land

  "War and the Wayward" by Michael Standaert, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 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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• Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Ebola, Priorities

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