Mitt Romney Quotes

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

Well, the most important thing a president will be is commander-in-chief. And that requires having an understanding of the complex issues on foreign policy. Foreign policy presents us often with hard choices, not black or white choices.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

I've stood up to Russia. I've taken on Putin and others, and I would do that as president.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

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

Foreign policy is important.

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

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

On foreign affairs, we've already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders, much of it you've covered, to move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world, which there are many.

President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia's President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

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

If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.

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.

The truth is you cannot command the respect of the world when you spend years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. Lecturing the American people about the Crusades while refusing to call Islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership.

Foreign policy is about US national security, it is definitely not non-intervention. It is definitely not isolationist. That's where people want to hear what they want to hear and not listen to what Donald Trump says. It is about national security for the United States, and that's fine.

Donald Trump is going to have to live in the real world in which Vladimir Putin is exactly who he presents himself to be, and Putin is extremely skilled. He's not going to make it very easy for the United States or Germany. And he's going to test Trump.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

No nation has friends only interests.