George W. Bush Quotes

The art of foreign policy is to help guide the inevitable.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

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

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.

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

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

Listen to others. Do not conduct foreign policy only according to your own ideology. Do not conduct foreign policy only with an eye on domestic politics.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.

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

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

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.

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

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.