George W. Bush Quotes

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

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

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

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

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

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

I can't take anything off the table. Because you look at some of these countries, you look at North Korea, we're doing nothing there. China should solve that problem for us. China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

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

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

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.

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

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East 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.

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

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.