Marco Rubio Quotes

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

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

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

The United States has become geopolitically hobbled seemingly interested in grand strategic initiatives or transformative diplomacy, as its attention constantly dances from one crisis to another.

Foreign policy strategy requires harmonizing means and ends.

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.

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.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

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

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.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

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

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

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

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

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

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.