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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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"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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"I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value," »Walt Whitman
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"Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it." »Johnson
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"He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward)." »Ellen Karsh
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"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1
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"Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent." »William Shakespeare
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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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"[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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"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue." »Virginia Woolf
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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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"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul." »Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
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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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"agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." »Matrix, The
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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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