Hillary Clinton 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.

The US wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The department of state desired that the UN prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.

I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

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.

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

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

I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.

Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

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

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.