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In the cosmic ballet of diplomacy, each negotiation adds a new silhouette against the glowing backdrop of muligt laughter and delegations pacing among the stars.
Author:
Eleni Celestialis
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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
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Howard Zinn
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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
Author:
Roger Waters
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While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy.
Author:
George Voinovich
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The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
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Atal Vajpayee
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During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.
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Gustav Stresemann
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We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
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Adlai Stevenson
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He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.
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Ronald Steel
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We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
Author:
Brad Sherman
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It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.
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Tim Ryan
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We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.
Author:
George Rockwell
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In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.
Author:
James Reston
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Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.
Author:
Georgi Purvanov
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Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.
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Romano Prodi
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
Author:
John Perkins
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There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
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Ron Paul
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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
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Ron Paul
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The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
Author:
Carlos Mesa
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Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.
Author:
Timothy McVeigh
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Author:
Aaron McGruder
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The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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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.
Author:
Richard Lugar
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The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
Author:
Trent Lott
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Author:
Joe Klein
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.
Author:
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
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John Kennedy
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I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Author:
Robert Kagan
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Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
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Michael Johns
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Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
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Hubert Humphrey
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We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.
Author:
Jinato Hu
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Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility.
Author:
Chuck Hagel
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Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly.
Author:
Chuck Hagel
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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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.
Author:
Evan Galbraith
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Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.
Author:
Klaus Fuchs
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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Author:
Brendan Fraser
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I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
Author:
Jo Emerson
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
Author:
Ramsey Clark
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Author:
Ward Churchill
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Jimmy Carter
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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.
Author:
Tucker Carlson
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
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Pat Buchanan
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
Author:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
Author:
Christopher Bond
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The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
Author:
Sidney Blumenthal
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It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
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Joe Biden
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American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
Author:
Howard Berman
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Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction with the Muslim world.
Author:
Howard Berman
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
Author:
Harry Belafonte
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To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.
Author:
Evan Bayh
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A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
Author:
Timothy Ash
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U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
Author:
Richard Armitage
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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
Author:
Eric Alterman
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And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.
Author:
Gianni Agnelli
