Foreign Quotes

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

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

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.