George P. Bush Quotes

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

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

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

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

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

We have a tendency in America to deal with foreign affairs on a day by day basis. We are so saturated with facts that we do no look at a longer, broader picture.

When did the American people decide that U. S. foreign policy should be conducted through the United Nations.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

People tend to leave foreign affairs to governments because they think the leaders of government have all the information and know better.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Never for a moment, have the responsible and instructed statesmen in charge of the foreign affairs of the United States failed to consider themselves bound to insist upon this policy .... Almost every President and Secretary of State has re-stated the doctrine with vigor and emphasis in the discussion of the diplomatic affairs of his day.

Bill Clinton’s only experience with foreign policy is the fact that he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.