Sam Brownback Quotes

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

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

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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

I was an international studies major.

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

The United Nations exists to help countries solve their problems. If it helps the Americans solve theirs by blaming me, I'll be a scapegoat.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

I think it also important that the policies of the great nations be made simple and clear, so that the chance of misunderstanding is minimized.

The United Nations is a means. It is not an end for American foreign policy.

You can't wing foreign policy.

We are now changing the culture at the United Nations. And with that, we're changing the culture in the world in the discussions that we're having.

European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.

American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding issues left over from World War I, and Washington took the lead in negotiating naval limitations in the Pacific.

I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.

[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.