Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 22

• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Rights, Important

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• All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Dog, Travel

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• A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not secure despite twelve carrier battle groups. We must accept that it is a cornerstone of Mexican foreign policy to export illegally each year a million of its own to the United States to avoid needed reform at home and to influence American domestic policy.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Home, Years

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• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

  William Blum

  Compassion, People, Empathy

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• Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

  James M. Cain

  Writing, Problem, Novel

  "Literature's DNA" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2007.

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• In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Views, America, Evil

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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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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• The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even on the continuity and professionalism of its foreign policy. France will be heeded if it has a message to convey. Faced with the temptations of laissez-faire, France must stand out as the nation with the imagination and determination to pursue an ambition that combines cogency with generosity.

  Jacques Chirac

  Determination, Ambition, Generosity

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• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

  John Boyd Orr

  Airplane, Government, Political

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• Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We will be able to engage viewers directly on subjects that matter most to them, from finances to civil liberties to foreign policy.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Tired, Media

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• Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

  Sarah Palin

  Health, Obamacare, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Sarah Palin from Sep 09, 2013

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• It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Issues, People

  "Pelosi tells Obama to act on Syria" by Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. August 29, 2013.

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• The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Believe, Race, History

  "Islamic State changes battle protocols in response to airstrikes". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. September 30, 2014.

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Money, Reality

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

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• We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

  Lee Zeldin

  Military, Office, Trying

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Europe, Achievement

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

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• I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn't too late for that.

  Garry Kasparov

  Secret, President, Facts

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

  Garry Kasparov

  Self, Would Be, World

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• [I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Russia, Europe

  Samuel Putnam Waldo, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1823). “Biographical sketches of distinguished American naval heroes in the war of the revolution, between the American Republic and the Kingdom of Great Britain: comprising sketches of Com. Nicholas Biddle, Com. John Paul Jones, Com. Edward Preble, and Com. Alexander Murray. With incidental allusions to other distinguished characters ...”, p.381

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• Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Thinking, Detours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are certainly major differences between Poland's policies and those of the old EU countries. Debates are going on in Brussels over a shared foreign policy and even a shared foreign minister.

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Differences, Debate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a world of increasing interdependence, energy security will depend much on how countries manage their relations with one another. That is why energy security will be one of the main challenges of foreign policy in the years ahead. Oil and gas have always been political commodities.

  Daniel Yergin

  Country, Years, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Feel Good, Tangible, Justified

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• One of the principal factors fueling the proliferation of the abuse of secrecy and sensitive but unclassifieds is the administration's adherence to the unitary executive principal. This administration more than any of its predecessors believes that it is its responsibility to collect power onto itself in the executive office when it comes to the conduct of war, foreign policy, the management of agencies and departments, regulations, etc.

  Ted Gup

  War, Believe, Responsibility

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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