Donald Trump Quotes

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

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.

As far as Putin and Russia, I don't say good, bad or indifferent. I don't know the gentleman. I hope we have a fantastic relationship. That's possible and it's also possible that we won't. We will see what happens.

Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.

I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

I think the foreign policy is really not Donald Trump administration concern. Like the Syria strike. I mean, it meant almost nothing. They hit an empty air base. Within a day, it was functioning again. Planes were flying off it. It was for a domestic show, you know - show what a tough guy I am; I'm not Barack Obama.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

I think I'd have a good relationship with Putin. Who knows? He's been a leader far more than Barack Obama has been a leader.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

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.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

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