Ernest Bevin Quotes

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

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.

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

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

Foreign policy is important.

When Barack Obama was running for president, he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Obama believed that he could speak to allies and dictators directly and charm them into seeing the error of their ways.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals