Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The people and the warmakers are two distinct groups. We must never say 'we' when discussing the US government's foreign policy. For one thing, the warmakers do not care about the opinions of the majority of Americans. It is silly and embarrassing for Americans to speak of 'we' when discussing their government's foreign policy, as if their input were necessary to or desired by those who make war.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  War, Silly, Two

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• The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

  Don Feder

  Purpose, Goodness, Security

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Today’s endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date...

  Allen West

  Decision, President, Today

  "Allen West: Obama's Recognition of Pre-1967 Borders 'Beginning of the End' for Jewish State Read Newsmax Article: Allen West: Obama's Middle East Policy 'Beginning of the End' for Israel | Newsmax.com Urgent: Do you approve of Pres. Trump’s job performance? Vote Here!". www.newsmax.com. May 19, 2011.

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• If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mets, Reunification, Instance

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.

  Chris Matthews

  Careers, President, Benefits

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

  Ernest Bevin

  Common Sense, Humanity, Affair

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• •“I don’t have the foggiest idea about what I think about international, foreign policy.”

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Ideas, International

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• The focus ought to be on the single fact that Hillary Clinton wants to double down on a failed foreign policy and we need to be united to defeat that because we're going to be in a place that is far less secure than it is today.

  Jeb Bush

  Focus, Needs, Want

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. Hitting the reset button with Vladimir Putin - recall that she called Bashar Al-Assad a positive reformer and then she opened an embassy and then later she said, over, and over, and over again, "Bashar Al-Assad must go." Although she wasn't prepared to do anything about it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Reset Button, Challenges, Buttons

  5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Believe, America

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Two months ago Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight. Just two months ago he said that Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator with Iran. And he gets his foreign policy experience from the shows.

  Jeb Bush

  Fighting, Isis, Iran

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's strategy is to lead from behind. It sounds like what he is outlining is not to lead at all. We cannot continue to outsource foreign policy. We must lead. We are the most powerful nation in the world. We need to begin to act like it, again.

  Marco Rubio

  Powerful, Sound, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.

  Ted Cruz

  Islamic, Government, Middle East

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

  Ann Coulter

  Mistake, Democracy, Democrat

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• Well I don't know what the city of Hollywood knows about foreign policy, but do I know that a lot of people do learn and educate themselves about policy and I don't have to be a policy expert to know that this will be a disaster.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cities, People, Hollywood

  "Antiwar actor: 'I don't have to be a policy expert'". "In the Crossfire" with Paul Begala, Tucker Carlson, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2003.

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• Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Bases, Policy

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

  Henry Rollins

  America, Backbone, Afghanistan

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• Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

  Mick Jagger

  Country, Ideas, Knows

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• The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

  Alan Grayson

  Running, Wall, Military

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• I see this piece of legislation as essentially being a declaration of virtual war. It is giving the President tremendous powers to pursue war efforts against a sovereign nation. ...I think it is another example of a flawed foreign policy that we have followed for a good many decades.

  Ron Paul

  War, Thinking, Giving

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• On the foreign policy front, Barack Obama is not a confrontational man. He stayed away from all confrontations, and you can look and see what happened overseas. It's a mess everywhere. So he made major mistakes, major policy mistakes. Those mistakes are not going to be forgiven by history.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Mistake, Men, Confrontation

  Source: deadline.com

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• The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.

  Harry Reid

  Country, War, Mistake

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's a question of building trust, and I think that President Barack Obama offers trust. Personally, I think he is a transparent individual with the right intentions. So I think things are going to change in terms of U.S. foreign policy, especially with respect to Latin America.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, Thinking, President

  Source: progressive.org

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