Barack Obama Quotes

Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

Barack Hussein Obama Jr. and other enemies of America.

However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.

In order for President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden to be moderates, they just have to present themselves between the extremes of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's isolationism and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's hawkishness - the difference between living in a cave or conducting ourselves so that we're in need of one.

Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.

I wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.

America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.

Donald Trump's views on Vladimir Putin, I think, are troubling. And I don't think he fundamentally understands exactly who Vladimir Putin is or exactly what he's trying to do. So, these are the kinds of things that I think in detail you need to begin to understand.

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

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

I would not vote for any Republican who was not in favor of giving assistance to England and France

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?

Isolationism has been a calamity.