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Quotes About Foreign

Some people are skeptical about the value of indictments where a foreign nation-state actor is involved. But in the case of APT10, the indictments marked an important step in publicly exposing China's continued practice of stealing intellectual property to give Chinese firms an unfair advantage in the marketplace.
~ Christopher A. Wray
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortunately, the audiences of foreign language films have not been cultivated. There's a market, but the market has been reduced, unfortunately, and you know that when you're making a foreign language film, you're making a choice.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.
~ Charles Krauthammer
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
~ Heinrich Boll
I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and independent films there.
~ Rachel Morrison
Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.
~ Uday Kotak
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy.
~ Peter Blair Henry
The Constitution's Emoluments Clause bars the president from earning any compensation from a foreign government. Mr. Trump ought to consider a partial disinvestment from his company by either selling outright or rejecting the proceeds of any stakes with foreign government partners.
~ Tom Fitton
I think there is a diplomatic stance that would fit me and I will stick to my own style, while also seeking assistance from the Foreign Ministry.
~ Yoshihide Suga
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.
~ Murray Rothbard
As a mother of four children, I want to know the drugs I'm giving them are safe. And as an American businesswoman, I want to keep jobs here, and that means making sure foreign drug plants have to meet the same standards as domestic ones.
~ Heather Bresch
Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.
~ Lisa Murkowski
As a former F.B.I. special agent who conducted counterintelligence investigations, I can attest that foreign intelligence services do not operate on the basis of explicit agreements or even actions that, standing alone, constitute criminal activity.
~ Asha Rangappa
For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first economically and then politically. We could not have been more wrong - a miscalculation that stands as the greatest failure of U.S. foreign policy since the 1930s.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.
~ Erin O'Toole
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
~ Francis Bacon
Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant idiot.
~ Terry Pratchett
Relativism is an illusion that arises as soon as something is handled according to foreign, transcendental criteria.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The oikophobe does not want sharia or Aztec human sacrifice, or any other foreign custom, in his own country. What he wants is power within it, and oikophobia is an instrument to achieve it by delegitimizing those he thinks already have it. He wants to replace one ruling class, as he sees it, with another – his own.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
~ Bill Bryson
Nearly all of these Chinese girls that have had success have had coaching from foreign coaches.
~ Michael Chang
America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid.
~ Andrew Garfield