Tucker Carlson Quotes

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

No nation has friends only interests.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

… international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

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.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.