Dave Barry Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Iran, President

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Turns Forty”, p.175, Ballantine Books

• The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to help him locate it, and when the commissioners called him in to testify, he told them, essentially, that he couldn't remember what it looked like. Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way. But with this president, you have this nagging feeling that he's telling the truth.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Lying, Knowing

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

• Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Triumph, Three

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.170, Ballantine Books

• Bill Clinton, who, to his credit, has established a clear and consistent foreign policy, which is as follows: Whenever the president of the United States gets anywhere near any foreign head of state, living or dead, he gives that leader a big old hug. This has proven to be an effective way to get foreign leaders to do what we want: Many heads of state are willing to sign any random document that President Clinton thrusts in front of them, without reading it, just so he will stop embracing them.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Giving, Leader

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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