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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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"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." »George Washington
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)" »Irving Layton
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"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." »George Carlin
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"It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." »Sir Winston Churchill, 1940, in his first address as the newly appointed Prime Minister.
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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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"You do the policy, I'll do the politics." »J Danforth Quayle
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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, 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 past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." »L. P. Hartley
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"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it." »Mark Twain
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"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom" »H. G. Wells
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"To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy" »MIT Assasination Club slogan
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more." »Albert Camus
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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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"It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours." »A. M. Rosenthal
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"Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others" »Miguel Cerbantes
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." »Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin
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"The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked." »Robert Hutchins
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