Sam Brownback Quotes

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.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

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

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.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

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.

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

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

I was an international studies major.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

That is where American foreign policy begins—with the interest, the aspirations, and the values of the American people.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

Ninety percent of foreign policy is reacting to whatever's happening out there.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

There is a limitation upon the ability of the U. S. to solve these problems [of foreign policy].

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

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

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

A United States President should never, never, never, never threaten the use of force unless he is prepared to follow up.