Hillary Clinton Quotes

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

Politics stops at the water's edge

Foreign policy is important.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

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

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

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

When I disagree with the President on foreign policy, I ought to do it on American soil.

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

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

In politics, reality is that which is unseen. Politics is the art of combining a nation’s diverse or opposing factors to the benefit of its domestic well-being, and of saving the country from the open enmity or covetous friendship of other nations.

Partisan politics should stop at the boundaries of the United States.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

Our national security is not a partisan issue.

I don't want to be creating new foreign policy for - for my country or in any way to distance myself in the foreign policy of - of our nation, but we respect the right of a nation to defend itself.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

You too would prefer that Russia maintained good relations with both the United Kingdom and the United States, wouldn't you? I would prefer it as well. If anybody in the U.S. or in the United Kingdom says: "I would like to establish good partnership relations with Russia", then both of us, you and me, should welcome that. So should people like me and people like you. However, we have no idea yet what would actually happen after the elections [2016]. That is why I am telling you that we will work with any President designated as such by the American public.