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Quotes About Foreign

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.
~ Leon Panetta
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
~ J. K. Rowling
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
~ Robert Mugabe
Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.
~ Steve Hilton
I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.
~ Ken Watanabe
Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?
~ Pat Paulsen
Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.
~ Amy Klobuchar
On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.
~ George Packer
Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
~ Iqbal Quadir
I believe in diplomacy; I don't believe in talking to... that talking to Iran somehow constitutes a concession or a favour.
~ Richard N. Haass
'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
~ Denis Villeneuve
I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian.
~ Anton du Beke
I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.
~ Chris Murphy
I think when you have so many people working for American-based think tanks and American-based defense companies, there is always going to be a bent towards proposing American-led solutions for foreign problems. People get paid big money in Washington to come up with ways that America can fix problems overseas, and they are not always right.
~ Chris Murphy
Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—" Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?" Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian." Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?
~ Richelle Mead
What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course.
~ Richelle Mead
Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian." "You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa?
~ Richelle Mead
Stick." I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. where?" He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked in perfect English, "why are you talking like that?
~ Richelle Mead
He shrugged. "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—" "Wild and disrespectful?" I interrupted. "Who the hell are you anyway? Outsourced help?" "Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova. "Her sanctioned guardian." "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?
~ Richelle Mead
You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?
~ Richelle Mead
Realism is alien to the American tradition
~ Robert D. Kaplan
I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Poteten det var en ny frukt, det var intet mystisk ved den, intet religiøst, kvinnfolk og barn kunne være med og få den satt, disse jordeplene som kom fra fremmed land likesom kaffen, stor og herlig mat, men i slekt med nepen.
~ Knut Hamsun
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known since childhood.
~ Kundera, Milan