Hubert Humphrey Quotes

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

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

Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and proscribing the foreign policy of the United States ... and it is the constitutional duty of the President to respect that policy ...

Foreign policy is always a sticking point between Congress and the executive.

The ability of the Congress of the United States to have any strategic view [of foreign policy] is virtually nil.

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

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.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

You can't build a foreign policy on the presence of an individual [a particular foreign leader].

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

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

…though the American government did much to encourage the organs of the League, the fact that it stood aside, sharing neither the rights nor the duties of the League powers, was a fatal handicap to joint action.

By absenting the United States from the process by which international legal rules are made, the Senate has denied the country’s ability to shape them.

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

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

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

Foreign policy is important.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.