Nate Silver Quotes

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

A president cannot sit on his hands and be seen as passive in the face of ruthless action by a foreign dictator.

The respective powers of the President and Congress of the United States, in the case of war with foreign powers are yet undetermined. Perhaps they can never be defined.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

Foreign policy is always a sticking point between Congress and the executive.

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

As the power of the populace increases, the wisdom of its statesmen, who concern themselves with external affairs, decreases proportionately.

We elect our presidents to protect U. S. national interests.

The Declaration of War function is corrupted if the President is the only source of information about the issue…

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.

I think the president must be very watchful of what is happening. The president cannot deal with the bread and butter issues of Parliament, but he cannot be a sleeping president.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

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.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.