Global Affairs Quotes

The only remaining superpower doesn’t have enough interest in what’s going on in the world to organize and run an espionage service.

A candidate’s command of foreign policy acts as a proxy for assessing broader leadership abilities.

Since 2010, Hillary Clinton's State Department, with the aid of Brazil, France, and Canada and in league with the Clinton Foundation and other 'philanthropists,' put into place something like a never-ending coup, an everlasting intervention.

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my intention to try to get into the Foreign Service.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

I have a husband at home who doesn't care about politics or global affairs.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a major role to play in global affairs. The pope is more than a spiritual leader. For the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he is an inspiration of holiness and goodness and, above all, the faithful proclamation of the Gospel.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

Foreign policy mandarins often wish the public would leave them alone so that they can get on with the serious business of statecraft.

There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

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

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or in the Navy Reserves for 13 years. I've got an undergraduate degree and a master's degree focused on that stuff so I would put myself on the what I thought was the more well educated end of the spectrum on these things.

The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he regards Putin as in any way a bad guy.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.