Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

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

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

I was an international studies major.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

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

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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

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.

Sometimes everyone is foreign minister.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

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

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

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

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

I wanted to be a man who travelled the world to make peace. I didn't realise that most diplomats are megaphones for their governments.

Foreign policy is important.