Madeleine Albright Quotes

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

Multinational unions are created in a search for more power. This leads either to irresponsible warfare as a result of meddling in foreign affairs, or to irresponsible alliances.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

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

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

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

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

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

The first thing a diplomat has to do is understand the domestic politics of foreign states.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Foreign policy matters cannot be intelligently decided in a large general meeting.

The [foreign] policy of the United States is modeled on interventionism and aggression. It is logical that we should always be very suspicious.

Never in all the long years of strife and struggle has a parliamentary conduct of international affairs been successful.

War is but an instrument of international policy.