Evan G. Galbraith Quotes

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

The President has rarely leisure to give close or continuous attention to foreign policy.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

English [foreign] policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boat-hook to avoid collisions.

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

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

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

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

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.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

The ability of the Congress of the United States to have any strategic view [of foreign policy] is virtually nil.

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

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

In Washington, the funds available to the several other agencies for their overseas operations exceed those available to the State Department; the White House has not always given the State Department the necessary support.

When it comes to foreign policy, the American people will ultimately reward not the party with the most ambitious vision but the party with the most sober and realistic one.

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

The United States has become geopolitically hobbled seemingly interested in grand strategic initiatives or transformative diplomacy, as its attention constantly dances from one crisis to another.

Just because you change administrations doesn't mean you have to change [foreign] policy.

Foreign policy is like plumbing. You never notice it till it breaks and then all hell breaks loose.