Foreign Quotes - page 4

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live. (George F. Kennan)
Let him make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns." View quote
Mike Huckabee
I may not be the expert as some people on foreign policy, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. View quote
Mike Huckabee
The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion. View quote
Wesley Clark
No extension of foreign trade will immediately increase the amount of value in a country, although it will very powerfully contribute to increase the mass of commodities and therefore the sum of enjoyments. View quote
David Ricardo
A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market. View quote
David Ricardo
By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. View quote
Alexander Pope
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway. View quote
Bonar Law
I am very worried that most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
...foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
She is written in a foreign tongue. View quote
Henry James
My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Armageddon is not a foreign policy. View quote
Madeleine Albright
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird. View quote
Boris Johnson
Half the trouble about the modern man is that he is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them. View quote
Giuseppe Mazzini
It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive. View quote
Martin Feldstein
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will.Washington still hasn't learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept. (Paul Craig Roberts)
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. View quote
Ben Bernanke
I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs. View quote
Mae West
The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives. View quote
Stephen Harper
Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U. S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own. View quote
Willie Nelson