Zell Miller Quotes

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

Economic security is a very important part of foreign policy.

You have repeatedly asserted that you and the German people have no desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. Nothing can persuade the peoples of the earth that any governing power has any right or need to inflict the consequences of war on its own or any other people save in the cause of self-evident home defense.

It is just as important to define the limit beyond which we will not intervene as it is to convince our people that we cannot find security in an isolationist party.

Don't drag the Mossad into political arguments. These are people who can't defend themselves.

The public interest is not always the same as the national interest. Going to war with people who are not our enemy in places that are not a threat doesn't make us safe, and that applies whether it's in Iraq or on the Internet. The Internet is not the enemy. Our economy is not the enemy.

The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

America needs to be secure at home and abroad.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

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.