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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston
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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." »James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
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"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." »Johann von Goethe
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"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley
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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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"The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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"Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism." »Charles Lindberg Sr., 1915
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"I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer." »Peter Ustinov
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"No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." »Henry Kissinger
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"Sometimes the world seemed to come with subtitles, like a foreign film. So help her, sometimes people's hidden motives, their lies, their rationalizations, were so pitifully apparent that Sophia felt she could just sit and read them." »Andrew Klaven
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"I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to." »Will Rogers
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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain." »Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"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." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens." »Menachem Begin
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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed." »David K. Shipler
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"I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)" »Mark Twain
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"For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind." »Plato
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"As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of foreign Wars)" »Gerald R. Ford
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable." »Clifton Fadiman
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John F. Kennedy
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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