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Quotes About Foreign

War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
~ Robert Higgs
America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.
~ Jo Ann Emerson
I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.
~ George W. Bush
It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.
~ Stephen Farrell
You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.
~ Todd Rokita
Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia].
~ Julian Assange
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
~ Mike Lee
War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
What happens in Korea stays in Korea," he told himself.
~ T. Christian Miller
Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether they advance sword in hand or in the more insidious guise of beggars at our gates, pleading for admittance to share our prosperity. If we continue to allow them to enter they will in time drive us out of our own land by mere force of breeding. The
~ T. Lothrop Stoddard
strange and imported foods.
~ Tamar Myers
Every foreign force that comes crashing in thinks it's intervening in a country, but it's actually taking sides in an ongoing contest among Afghans about what this country is.
~ Tamim Ansary
His accent needs subtitles.
~ Tana French
The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.
~ Ted Chiang
I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
~ Nicholas Lea
My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.
~ Lulu Wang
How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.
~ David Crystal
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.
~ John Hewson
The consequences of leaking sensitive information is that Americans and coalition forces die, and we lose trust with foreign spies, and our national security is put at risk.
~ Brandon Webb
Just classic immigrant story - I mean, child of immigrant story - did not grow up with cable and so felt constantly like I was being spoken to in a foreign language when I would go to school. And people would be like, did you watch this? Did you watch that? I'd be like, no, but I did watch 'SNL.'
~ Bowen Yang
I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early - at eight - with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.
~ Ned Vizzini
El problema de no advertir la cultura propia es uno de los grandes placeres de viajar al extranjero: descubrir lo que uno no ha visto en el propio país y advertir lo que los demás no conocen acerca de ellos mismos.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I went back to the Thirty FAQs. Number Four informed me that I'd present one half of my visa card on arrival in Cuba, and it was Essential that I not lose the second half or I'd have trouble getting out of the country. Well, if things went right, I wouldn't need the second half; and if things went wrong, the second half wouldn't get me out of Cuba.
~ Nelson DeMille