Foreign Policy Quotes

• The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

  

  Evan G. Galbraith
  • Role
  • Officers
  • Formulation

• The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  

  Bert Holldobler
  • Weapons
  • Foreign Policy
  • Neighboring

• You see that in his foreign policy Barack Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Barack Obama
  • Foreign Policy
  • Backbone

• Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Strikes
  • Authorities
  • Foreign Policy

• I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Kids
  • American
  • Growing Up

• In foreign policy, there are times when speaking with one voice - and it doesn't have to be mine - allows us to engage better on issues, and enables us to do things more effectively.

  

  Catherine Ashton
  • Voice
  • Issues
  • Foreign Policy

• The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Mistakes
  • Health care
  • Foreign Policy

• Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Humanity
  • Common Sense
  • Foreign Policy

• Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.

  

  Catherine Ashton
  • Opportunity
  • Chance
  • Benefits

• Palestinian believers have a unique experience with US foreign policy and our close ties with Israel. This alliance has many layers, but given the strong support of the US church, and the frequency of religious language surrounding these policies, Palestinian Christian friends raise important and challenging questions about how we understand the intertwining of theology and politics in the US.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Church

• Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Decision
  • Mistake
  • Foreign Policy

• We need a foreign policy that is both tough... and smart. The good news? That is the historic legacy of the Democratic Party.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Smart
  • News
  • Democratic Party

• What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Attention
  • Write
  • Wind

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