Chris Murphy Quotes

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

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.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

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

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

There is every prospect that events arising out of our growing foreign investment will present us in the future with decisions involving war and peace, will bring us, whether we like it or not, to concern ourselves with distant causes.

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

I worked at the United Nations.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

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.

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

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

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

Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

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