Brian Urlacher Quotes

In most nations, public opinion is in revolt against foreign policy.

You will never hear me denigrating other countries.

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

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

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

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'

The United States should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

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

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.

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

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I was an international studies major.