115 Quotes About Foreign-policy

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy?

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that they wanted presented. They can't even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch—they are known, and the Norwegians—they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and yet, no, they too, with the proverbial, can't even get a phone call back.

...international peacebuilders usually arrive in new theaters of deployment with a clear sense of belonging to a specific group – a group markedly different from local populations.