Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America's core national interests - so important - promoting regional stability, and producing and easing the tensions within our very troubled world.

We believe that government in Britain should be working to restore our reputation on the international stage after Iraq and engage better within Europe.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.