Peter Landesman Quotes

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

[Commenting on foreign policy:] The Best politics is no politics.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

Listen to others. Do not conduct foreign policy only according to your own ideology. Do not conduct foreign policy only with an eye on domestic politics.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Bill Clinton’s only experience with foreign policy is the fact that he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

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

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

I'm not right wing, I'm not left wing. I love my country.

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.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

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.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

One of the things a Secretary of State shouldn't do is try to characterize foreign leaders. We have to take them as they are.

When I disagree with the President on foreign policy, I ought to do it on American soil.

Oh dear. Oh dear. Why do all these old gentlemen feel so confident that they understand foreign affairs.

One doesn't set aside reality in pursuing our interests abroad.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.