Robert Dallek Quotes

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

It is important that we get our people back, but your greater responsibility is to protect the honor and dignity of our country and its foreign policy interests.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

I care about national sovereignty of America.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

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

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

World politics is not a kindergarten.

the cornerstone of our foreign policy. But that does not entail a passive or submissive acceptance of political, economic, or cultural dependence.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

At a period like the present, when momentous changes are occurring and every hour is preparing new and great events in the political world, when a spirit of war is prevalent in almost every nation with whose affairs the interests of the United States have any connection, unsafe and precarious would be our situation were we to neglect the means of maintaining our just rights.