Foreign Quotes

• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Civil War
  • Foreign
  • Warfare

• The big problem in the world is when people are forced to be in a totally foreign context.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Problem
  • Context
  • Foreign

• It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

  

  Alfred Polgar
  • Foreign
  • Homeland
  • Emigrant

• Scotland will not be a foreign country after independence, any more than Ireland, Northern Ireland, England or Wales could ever be “foreign countries” to Scotland.

  

  Alex Salmond
  • Countries
  • Scotland
  • Foreign

• Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Situations
  • Awkward
  • Foreign

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

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Responsibility
  • Foreign
  • Bipartisanship

• If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia, they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • Christian
  • Dramatic
  • Accounts

• Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

  

  Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Dependent
  • Holding
  • Channels

• We need to recognize that although terrorism is real, there are many other dangers out there. And terrorism should not be the only driver or necessarily the leading driver of our foreign policy and especially of our domestic politics.

  

  Daniel Byman
  • Needs
  • Should
  • Danger

• I was a case officer, otherwise known as an operations officer. My role was to go out and convince Al Qaeda operatives to instead work with us as well as to convince people and officials in foreign governments to work on behalf of the U.S. government secretly.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Convince
  • Governments
  • Officer

• When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun.

  

  Misha Collins
  • Kitchen
  • Students
  • Pizza

• I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

  

  Michael Parenti
  • Confused
  • Horrible
  • Believes

• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • Firsts
  • Policy
  • Foreign

• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Policy
  • Commit
  • Shortcuts

• No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Politics
  • Foreign
  • Rogues

• The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Escape
  • Custom
  • Foreign

• My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

  

  Morey Amsterdam
  • Funny
  • Language
  • Perplexed

• Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Reputation
  • Members
  • Damage

• We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Challenges
  • Production
  • Developing

• I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries. Country Cartoon Age Certain Entertaining Play Stills Wells Brackets Foreign Countries

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Countries
  • Cartoon
  • Entertaining

• The opportunity to create wealth in foreign banks exists only in the investment banking space. Working in a local company teaches you to think long term.

  

  Ravi Subramanian
  • Opportunity
  • Working
  • Investment

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

  

  Rick Atkinson
  • Foreign
  • Correspondent

• I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].

  

  Rich Lowry
  • Hearing
  • Foreign
  • Confirmation

• America is a unique place. The value part of American foreign policy is something I think is very laudable, but it is uniquely American. And it is part of what makes America special.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Unique
  • Something

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