Mae West Quotes

Oh dear. Oh dear. Why do all these old gentlemen feel so confident that they understand foreign affairs.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper.

The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often than not a procession of suits and summits, protocol sessions and photo ops.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

The way you change foreign policy is by raising the domestic political cost of the policy.

The first thing a diplomat has to do is understand the domestic politics of foreign states.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.