Foreign Affairs Quotes

Trotsky appeared later and after assembling Foreign Office force, announced himself Minister for Foreign Affairs whereupon entire force declined to serve and left department which is now closed, not even responding to telephone calls. Only department responding to telephone is Ways of Communication but Minister of Ways of Communication imprisoned.

We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

In a sensitive matter, where its own ignorance could scarcely have been greater, Congress would have been better advised to leave the conduct of foreign policy in the hands of those who have been constitutionally charged with it.

The war on terror, sometimes known as the 'Global War on Terror' or by the clunky acronym GWOT, became the lens through which the Bush administration judged almost all of its foreign policy decisions. That proved to be dangerously counterproductive on several levels.

[Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

It is absolutely critical to build domestic support for any foreign initiative.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazils; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister.

I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

In the Palestinian camps in the Seventies, I fell in love with a woman fighter - now married with six kids, not mine! - and I seriously considered staying there with her.

The question of when you intervene is probably the toughest question of American foreign policy.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.

The U.S. relationship with Bahrain is obviously more complicated than with Syria and Iran.

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

We have a tendency in America to deal with foreign affairs on a day by day basis. We are so saturated with facts that we do no look at a longer, broader picture.