Dolly Parton Quotes

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

People tend to leave foreign affairs to governments because they think the leaders of government have all the information and know better.

President William Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

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

Bill Clinton’s only experience with foreign policy is the fact that he had breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

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

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

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

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

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

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

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

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

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.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

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

Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.