Jim Webb Quotes

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

Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

We can find common ground in agreeing that politics have no room in foreign policy.

The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.