Rick Santorum Quotes

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

You can't wing foreign policy.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

The origins of the principle of the balance of power are lost in the mists of history.

... American temptation to beleive that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

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

Be careful what you say. Words matter. Words really matter in foreign policy.

There is an appealing moral clarity in dividing the world into friend and foe. But in reality, progress in international affairs so often demands working with those with whom we do not see eye to eye.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.

I think I would have a very good relationship with many foreign leaders.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

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

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.