Quotes About Foreign affairs

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

It is vital that people are aware of what the Foreign Office can and can't do.

The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.

Tellingly, the department that deals with relations with the rest of the world doesn't have the word "foreign" in it: it is the State Department. It looks after the interests of one state alone. It might be called the Bargepole Department.

I really like United States so I pay attention to what goes on here. I don't really pay attention to what goes on overseas or in other countries, unless it affects us, then I'll pay attention.

Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely considered separate from foreign affairs.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Hillary Clinton is going to make sure that Americans are safe at home and abroad.

Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

I think we can be confident that U.S. policy toward Poland and thus also our relations will not deteriorate, that at least they will not become weaker.

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

A mercurial plan of action may have worked in the Trump Organization board room, but it's a disastrous tactic in foreign affairs.