Avigdor Lieberman Quotes

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Unilateralism in secret is sometimes necessary at the height of a crisis.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

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.

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

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

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

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

Foreign policy must be about priorities. The United States cannot do everything everywhere.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.