George W. Bush Quotes

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

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

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

People tend to leave foreign affairs to governments because they think the leaders of government have all the information and know better.

Never for a moment, have the responsible and instructed statesmen in charge of the foreign affairs of the United States failed to consider themselves bound to insist upon this policy .... Almost every President and Secretary of State has re-stated the doctrine with vigor and emphasis in the discussion of the diplomatic affairs of his day.

Foreign policy is important.

My main concern is with the world order

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.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

The most obvious difference between international relations and domestic politics is that international relations take place in anarchy, whereas politics within states is conditioned by hierarchy.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

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

We’re not the world’s policeman. Nor the world’s judge, jury and executioner.