Foreign Policy Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the same naive trust; a president with no conception of foreign policy and no discernible connection to the U.S. government, whose Nice Guyism will narrow the gap between the U.S. and us until nobody can tell the difference.

  Florence King

  Nice, Government, Differences

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.82, Macmillan

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• I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Men, President, Vices

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• I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Committees, Policy

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• Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

  Cleveland Amory

  Girl, President, Remember

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• [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Politics, Administration, Would Be

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• I spoke with Gerhard Schröder about a lot of things, including foreign policy. Schröder knows how important European policy is to me personally. I have worked together with Angela Merkel on European policy for many years, so I was surprised when Volker Kauder who has little experience in European policy, claimed that I had not represented German interests in Europe. That's an example of how the conservatives conduct an election campaign.

  Martin Schulz

  Important, Together, Election

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Shapes, Politics

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• I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wish, Republican, Democrat

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have a separate foreign policy operatus in the State Department that would run a dissenting foreign policy from the White House foreign policy. There, I think the populist America-first foreign policy of Donald Trump does run against a potential rival.

  David Brooks

  Running, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think Romney's foreign policy is sensible.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Sensible, Romney

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It`s all pretty extraordinary.

  Chuck Todd

  Circles, Records, Facts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump`s foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

  Chuck Todd

  Supportive, Bob, Arguing

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I just think, realistically, there's a lot of room outside the Trump populist right and the Bernie-Sanders-Elizabeth-Warren populist left. There are a lot of us who believe in open trade, open borders, a dynamic forward-looking economy, not a nostalgic economy, but do want to provide a significant level of social service or sort of economic Milton Friedman foreign policy, Ronald Reagan domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt. And there's a lot of room in the center.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, Borders

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you were following the [Barack] Obama campaign back then, closely, you could see it had become very close to banking interests. So I think you can't properly understand Hillary Clinton's foreign policy without understanding Saudi Arabia.

  Julian Assange

  Thinking, Understanding, Campaigns

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Pakistan, Fundamentals

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].

  Rich Lowry

  Attitude, Russia, Views

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

  Angela Merkel

  Views, Pillars, Relation

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• Foreign policy that is obviously guided by interests, but that is very much also committed to shared values, so we have a platform, democracy, freedom, respect of human rights that we would like to see respected all over the world and also, a peaceful world order.

  Angela Merkel

  Rights, Order, Peaceful

  "Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference". www.the-president.us. November 17, 2016.

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• Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the United States has a fundamental interest in Europe's stability and security.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Years, Europe

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Independent

  Source: time.com

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• I think a far more important strategic way to deal with the Islamic State would be to bring some of these regional partners and explain to them that Turkey's own contradictory foreign policy has to end. I mean, if United States is serious, it has leverage over Turkey. And apparently it has not been able to move Turkey sufficiently.

  Vijay Prashad

  Moving, Islamic, Mean

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

  Nat Hentoff

  Backbone, Policy, Barack

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• I think it's very, very important that in foreign policy and national security decision making, as in any other realm, that there be a range of diversity that reflects the full complexity of America. We should draw on those experiences to inform our decision making.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, America, Diversity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

  Barack Obama

  Political, President, Sound

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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