Ryan Zinke Quotes

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

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.

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

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

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

I remain committed to a balanced policy, which will protect our national interests both on our eastern border - I mean with Russia - and of course with the European Union.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Time after time … when policy makers confronted a conflict between foreign policy and domestic interests, the diplomatic imperative prevailed.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

An isolationist America would be everyone's nightmare.

I should drag in the United States.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

While pursuing its own interests, a country should accommodate the legitimate interests of others.

I would never seek foreign conflicts just to distract attention from domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

It is just as important to define the limit beyond which we will not intervene as it is to convince our people that we cannot find security in an isolationist party.

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

Why entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India's foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.