Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 8

• If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

  Rand Paul

  Looks, Four, Lasts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The idea of foreign policy realism, I think, fits more neatly with President Trump. And with John McCain, the neoconservative label of let's make the world safe for democracy and we're going to topple every regime hasn't worked.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Ideas, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Wall, Russia

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been told by people close to Trump that "Brexit Britain" is the only foreign policy issue that interests him, because he thinks the UK referendum paved the way for him. He hopes to help Britain leave the EU, and possibly to damage the EU, by offering a trade deal.

  Anne Applebaum

  Thinking, Issues, Offering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

  4 Copy quote

• I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.

  George W. Bush

  Eye, Sea, Decision

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m a Muslim, we come from a Muslim community and we are very critical of western or American foreign policy. So if I’ve got the right and if other Muslims have got the right to criticize… likewise everyone else has also got the right to criticize everything else.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Community, Criticize, Critical

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

  David Brooks

  Running, Agreement, Long

  "Shields and Brooks on the Senate's trade battle, train safety funding". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Hypocrisy, Principles, Moral

  "The Clinton doctrine". edition.cnn.com. March 29, 1999.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

  David Letterman

  Mars, Astronomy, Has Beens

  7 Copy quote

• The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

  Narendra Modi

  Common, Mindset, Meetings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

  Narendra Modi

  Views, Conversation, Policy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, Two, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Policy, Barack

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.rferl.org

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique.

  Cornel West

  Corporations, Kind, Wealth

  "Cornel West on 'The Radical King'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Spring, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.

  David Brooks

  War, Marine, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source