American Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 2

• We have Mr. Putin in Russia. And he appears to be a popular president of Russia. And I don't think it's the business of the National Endowment for Democracy or American diplomats or American foreign policy to try to change the nature of that government.

  Pat Buchanan

  Thinking, Russia, Government

  "Pat Buchanan On 'America First' Under Trump". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. January 22, 2017.

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• We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

  Marco Rubio

  Enemy, Needs, World

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• For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there was disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement. But they were all like arguments within a family. I am not sure if the generation which doesn't have these experiences has the same view of things.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Europe, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

  Charley Reese

  Corporations, Coincidence, Economic

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• Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

  Richard N. Haass

  Country, Thinking, Europe

  "Examining The Foreign Policy Outlook Of Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Peaceful, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Jobs, Rights, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Foreign Policy, Criticize

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• The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  Aaron McGruder

  Military, People, Doe

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• One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

  Eric Alterman

  Sea, Presidential, Mind

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Foreign Policy, Committed, Wells

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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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• Bipartisanship on behalf of an imprudent policy can be folly, just as partisanship on behalf of a just cause can be wise. What is clear is that politics will not stop at the water's edge simply because presidents plead for it. American foreign policy will return to the tradition of Truman and Vandenberg only when the American public demands it.

  James M. Lindsay

  Wise, Water, President

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• If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

  Barbara Amiel

  America, Independence, Trying

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• American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.

  Tom DeLay

  Feel Good, Trying, World

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• The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Unions, Emigration, Humanitarian

  "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, www.nytimes.com. December 10, 2010.

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• First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Government, Democracy, World

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• American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.

  Howard Berman

  Israel, Support, Unequivocal

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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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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