Global Strategy Quotes

We cannot operate with one foreign policy objective in one area, and with a conflicting one next door.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

With regards to American foreign policy all across the globe, it is important for us to be operating from positions of strength, and not to just concede that.

I shall certainly do all in my power to keep Europe quiet and also guard the rear of Russia so that nobody shall hamper your action towards the Far East! For that is clearly the great task of the future for Russia to cultivate the Asian Continent and to defend Europe from the inroads of the Great Yellow race.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Global vision, local win.

The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.

I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.

The U.S. cannot implement a cogent strategy on the world stage if no one is sure whether to take the President seriously.

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis.

You can't wing foreign policy.

What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.

We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

The thought process of India was more around its potential as a cost arbitrage. We always recognised the potential of India, but we were more coming from how can we fit into cost structure rather than selling things here.

In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.