Gordon Adams Quotes

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

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

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

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

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

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.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

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.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

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

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

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.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.