Theodore Friend Quotes

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

Never for a moment, have the responsible and instructed statesmen in charge of the foreign affairs of the United States failed to consider themselves bound to insist upon this policy .... Almost every President and Secretary of State has re-stated the doctrine with vigor and emphasis in the discussion of the diplomatic affairs of his day.

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

You can't build a foreign policy on the presence of an individual [a particular foreign leader].

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

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

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.

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

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

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

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.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

We have a tendency in America to deal with foreign affairs on a day by day basis. We are so saturated with facts that we do no look at a longer, broader picture.

Foreign policy begins with domestic policy.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

When did the American people decide that U. S. foreign policy should be conducted through the United Nations.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.