Harry Browne Quotes

There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.

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

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

Never in all the long years of strife and struggle has a parliamentary conduct of international affairs been successful.

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

When did the American people decide that U. S. foreign policy should be conducted through the United Nations.

[Sanctions] make us feel like a player in foreign policy where our powers tend to be more limited …. We’re less patient with diplomacy.

The question of when you intervene is probably the toughest question of American foreign policy.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Russia has demonstrated it is not committed to genuine partnership with the United States.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

I spent eight years at the U.N., so I understand that U.S. ambassadors have a lot of issues to cover.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

I believe it is both unwise and even wrong to interfere in the affairs of other nations. Indeed, if we are honest, we will see that this is one of the reasons for 9-11.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

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

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

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.

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible.

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.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.