Us Foreign Policy Quotes

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Any time someone says “that’s it, I’m leaving” I ask them whether they’d prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they’re usually worse in the protectorates.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

For too long, the U.S. has been operating upon the premise that American men and matériel should be capable of reaching and controlling all corners of the world. This was a bully’s universe.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as “kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in.” But of course it doesn’t put it like that. It talks of “low intensity conflict…” What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

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

I don’t make any secret of the fact that I’m closer to the Republicans than to the Democrats. But even under a President Hillary Clinton, US foreign policy toward Moscow would probably be more critical and confrontational. I hope it isn’t too late for that.