Tom Cotton Quotes

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

Congress cannot and should not run 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.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

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

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

That is where American foreign policy begins—with the interest, the aspirations, and the values of the American people.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Undertaking to explain our foreign policy in terms of our public opinion is to explain one mystery in terms of another.

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

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

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

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.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

Foreign policy is important.

It's incumbent upon all members of Congress to support legislation that keeps us safe at home and abroad.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.