Richard Armitage Quotes

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

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.

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

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

I think President Obama has always been a little bit underestimated. Some of the things he's done with foreign policy have been unassailable. Getting us out of Iraq, killing Osama Bin Laden.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

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

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

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

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Obama's foreign policy has three parts: Abandon our allies, appease our enemies, and apologize for America.

America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Seven-and-a-half years of the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has weakened America's place in the world and it has emboldened the enemies of our freedom.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

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.