Yusuke Tsurumi Quotes

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

A President who wants to focus on domestic affairs must put foreign policy in a framework that Americans understand and that makes them feel secure.

We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

Undertaking to explain our foreign policy in terms of our public opinion is to explain one mystery in terms of another.

Just because you change administrations doesn't mean you have to change [foreign] policy.

There is an issue of what does the U.S. expect abroad and what does the U.S. give at home. I think there's a reconciliation there that needs to be done.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

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.

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

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.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

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

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

The ability of the Congress of the United States to have any strategic view [of foreign policy] is virtually nil.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

My friends doubt about this Danish business. I own the policy doubtful; but our right is clear, if self defense is clear. They would have become our enemies very shortly. Still, our national character is injured.

I would never seek foreign conflicts just to distract attention from domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.