Gordon Brown Quotes

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

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

The United States does not feel any need to consult with anybody … except when it suits them.

Political and security realities have reduced the scope of American unilateralism.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

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

The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

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

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

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