There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception. – Henry Kissinger
I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy. – George Voinovich
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks. – John F. Kerry
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially. – Anthony Lewis
The Democrats just don’t have a foreign policy that they’re willing to defend, that they’re willing to use to take down the president’s. We’re dealing with the power of suggestion here. – Chris Matthews
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. – Elliott Abrams
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world. – David Miliband
I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. – Mike McCaul
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. – P. J. O’Rourke
Finally Germany’s attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany. – Klaus Fuchs
As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration’s position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters. – Marcia Fudge
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border. – Lawrence Kudlow
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well. – Romano Prodi
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us? – Ron Paul