Itamar Franco Quotes

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

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.

In most nations, public opinion is in revolt against foreign policy.

Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

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

Worries about misplaced sovereignty [at the UN] … appear to come primarily from people aggrieved to find the United Nations so full of foreigners.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

Are we Uncle Sam or Uncle Sucker?

I should drag in the United States.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.

I think strong countries and strong nationalist movements in countries make strong neighbors. And that is really the building blocks that built Western Europe and the United States, and I think it's what can see us forward.

Shouldn't India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?

I care about national sovereignty of America.

No self-respecting country - especially one with our clout and proud history - should sign up to a proposal that surrenders the power to veto our foreign and trade policy to another entity.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

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.