There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.
I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
Undertaking to explain our foreign policy in terms of our public opinion is to explain one mystery in terms of another.
Internal [domestic] changes always precede the change in the foreign policy of a nation.
While UPA2's handling of immediate foreign policy challenges can be criticised, it would be difficult to challenge the long-term relevance of the principles that define the Manmohan Singh Doctrine.
One of the great power’s intents in granting trade concessions and inducements or taking a hard line toward another state is to enable a favorable foreign policy coalition abroad or disable an unfavorable coalition.
Diplomacy should always be the first option, and every mission should have a clear, achievable objective that is in the interests of the United States.
Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.
Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.
Power is a necessary condition for enduring foreign-policy success but not a sufficient one.
