Foreign Quotes - page 2

It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics. so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage. View quote
Xi Jinping
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town. View quote
O. Henry
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. View quote
George W. Bush
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. View quote
Henry Clay
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! View quote
Harry Hopkins
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. View quote
Billy Wilder
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. View quote
Robert Kagan
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. View quote
Brendan Fraser
During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. View quote
Daniel Silva
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. View quote
Ed O'Brien
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. View quote
Anthony Holden
Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward. (Bill Shuster)
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. View quote
Emma Bonino
When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11. View quote
Ed Gillespie
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset. View quote
Ed Gillespie
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton