David Miliband Quotes

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

President Obama's greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.

The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems - whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global.

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

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

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

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

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

The next President's National Security Advisor ought to be an economist, instead of the usual military officer or arms control expert.

As symbols of national power representing the people government of the United States, our embassies have become obvious targets for terror.

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

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

By invading Iraq, the President has undermined the War on Terrorism.

The sometimes contradictory demands of the American people—perfect security at home without burdensome military engagements abroad—have fueled the technology-driven, tactical approach of drone warfare.

The world around us is constantly changing, and so do the threats that we face.

It is just as important to define the limit beyond which we will not intervene as it is to convince our people that we cannot find security in an isolationist party.

Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that's where we need to be.

War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.