Sarah Palin Quotes

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.

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.

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

No one can think intelligently on the many complicated problems of American foreign policy unless he decides first what he considers the real purpose and object of that policy…. Fundamentally, I believe the ultimate purpose of our foreign policy must be to protect the liberty of the people of the United States.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

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

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

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.

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

America’s foreign policy has left us with more enemies and fewer allies.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.