George F. Kennan Quotes

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

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

The President has rarely leisure to give close or continuous attention to foreign policy.

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

The very nature of executive decisions as to foreign policy is political, not judicial.

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

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

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

Congress has a constitutional right to an authoritative voice in declaring and proscribing the foreign policy of the United States ... and it is the constitutional duty of the President to respect that policy ...

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

People tend to leave foreign affairs to governments because they think the leaders of government have all the information and know better.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Foreign policy mandarins often wish the public would leave them alone so that they can get on with the serious business of statecraft.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

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.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.