Strategic Interest Quotes

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.

The fundamental question I believe is, 'Is political Islam in our best interest?' If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

It's in the best interest of the radical left types - best psychological and strategic interest - to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

The Russians saw the Marshall Plan as inimical; to their strategic interest in Europe if it worked. They galvanized all the communist parties in the world to oppose it.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

It's clear to me that many weapons sales are very short-sighted. The U.S. and other arms-producing countries sell weapons for a variety of reasons, but most sales involve strategic interest or profit motivation, or both.

If the principle product of the Middle East were broccoli, we would not worry about the Middle East.

American forces in Iraq found $650 million in American cash sealed in a hidden cottage. See, this is why President Bush wants to invade Iraq, the whole place is oil and cash. It's like Republican Disneyland.