140 Quotes About International-relations

Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two countries.I used to think that no such thing existed. Recently, I have become convinced that it does, and that it is in fact a Specially Bad Relationship.

Nations are guided only by their own interests and have no obligation to other countries which did not conform to those interests.

Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.