Quotes about Foreign policy

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The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to co — Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit — Mark Curtis, Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses
Facing a deteriorating economy and a weakening hold over the populace, the Iraqi state under Saddam Hussein opted to rev — Nadje Al-Ali, What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
It is a pervasive condition of empires that they affect great swathes of the planet without the empire's populace being — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a coun — Zbigniew Brzeziński
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues l — Zbigniew Brzeziński
only if we act greatly in meeting our responsibilities abroad will we remain a great nation, and only if we remain a gre — Richard M. Nixon
Yea” might be turned into “Nay” and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied to the matter. The second — Leonard Wibberley, The Mouse That Roared
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. Thi — P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
I have written this book with the conviction that the response to injury does not have to be vengeance and that we need — Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global — Nadje Al-Ali, What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
The UN lacked the ability to act without the support of its more powerful members, notably the United States. The Americ — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitat — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend. — Bernard Lewis, The United States and the Middle East
Current public diplomacy and foreign policy making reduces the role of American citizens to mere spectators. The USIA's — Nancy Snow, Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World
When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "min — Madeleine K. Albright, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no — Egon Bahr
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Ronald Reagan goes around saying that Nicaragua is communist and that communism is a threat to Central America. Why does — Elvia Alvarado, Don't Be Afraid, Gringo
Soldiers in foreign camps, so far from being missionaries for good, require missionaries themselves, more than the nativ — H.W. Brands, T.R.: The Last Romantic