David Cunliffe Quotes

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

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

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

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.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

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

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

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

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

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

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.