Margarita Simonyan Quotes

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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.

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

When I disagree with the President on foreign policy, I ought to do it on American soil.

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

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Politics stops at the water's edge

Reject treaties that weaken or encroach upon American sovereignty.

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.

We need to review treaties to make them reflect our national interest.

The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.

Americanism not globalism will be our credo as long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve.

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?

The United States has a responsibility to defend our values.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

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.

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.