Newt Gingrich Quotes

Foreign policy is important.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The management of a balance of power is a permanent undertaking, not an exertion that has a foreseeable end.

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

[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.

I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America's core national interests - so important - promoting regional stability, and producing and easing the tensions within our very troubled world.

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

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

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Every foreign policy has to have a moral purpose.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

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

You can't build a foreign policy on the presence of an individual [a particular foreign leader].

War is but an instrument of international policy.

Power is a necessary condition for enduring foreign-policy success but not a sufficient one.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

We had to avoid wounding Austria too severely; we had to avoid leaving behind in her any unnecessary bitterness of feeling or desire for revenge; we ought rather to reserve the possibility of becoming friends again with our adversary of the moment, and in any case to regard the Austrian state as a piece on the European chessboard and the renewal of friendly relations as a move open to us. If Austria were severely injured, she would become the ally of France and of every other opponent of ours; she would even sacrifice her anti-Russian interests for the sake of revenge on Prussia.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

Compromise is not a word that generally makes political hearts flutter, and it is even less loved when it comes to the politics of U. S. foreign policy