Judith Butler Quotes

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

I just can't understand why we don't go forward and put more sanctions.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

The U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

You may meet commercial restriction with commercial restriction, but you cannot safely confront premeditated insult and injury with commercial restrictions alone.

So much of our foreign policy is based on other people’s weakness.

I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people want to find even an excuse to keep them or an excuse to reintroduce them. I don't know whether they've looked at the record of how sanctions actually produce exactly the opposite of what they wanted to produce.

Strong nations co-operate to the harmony and wealth of the world. Weak nations are a perpetual cause of disturbances and perils.

Ninety percent of foreign policy is reacting to whatever's happening out there.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

Unilateral sanctions only make foreign rivals stronger and taint us as unreliable suppliers.

Foreign policy does not mean guns and rifles, but utilizing all legitimate international means to convince others.

Americans must not be given the impression that they have a duty to go to war against every evil leader in the world and against every transgression of the international order.

Power is a necessary condition for enduring foreign-policy success but not a sufficient one.

Between countries -- regardless of whether they are democratic or authoritarian -- there will need to be an explanation, either for publics or for powerful constituencies

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

used as oil to smooth the troubled water of our aggressive commercial policy

When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international community is defied, we will act; with peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary.