Alistair Horne Quotes

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

We have to develop preventive diplomacy.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

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

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

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

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

If we should come to an issue with the world, let us keep it off as long as possible.

A strong neutral is the trustee for civilization in a shell-shocked world.

There is no area where experience matters more than in war and diplomacy.

The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace is real and serious

We have to deal with it diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must.

One war at a time.

America has wearied of Middle East War.

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