“It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 146.
“It's time to shake the rust off America's foreign policy.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, April, Foreign Policy Speech (27 April 2016)
Jill Stein (1950) American politician and physician
"Making the Wars for Oil Obsolete," May 22, 2016 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd6gLKkaBD4
“My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Politique intérieure, je fais la guerre; politique extérieure, je fais la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre.
"Discours de Guerre" [Speech on War] Chambre des Députés, Assemblée Nationale, Paris (8 March 1918)
“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Campaign stop, Redwood, California, September 27, 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/nov/04/uselections2000.usa5 <br class="br">2000s, 2000
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Third presidential debate http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/presidential-debate-full-transcript/story?id=17538888, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida, , quoted in * 2012-10-22 <br class="br">The Winning Combination <br class="br">Editorial <br class="br">New York Sun <br class="br">http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-winning-combination/88047/ <br class="br">2012-10-25 <br class="br">2012
“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”
Madeleine K. Albright (1937–2022) Former U.S. Secretary of State
Speech at Harvard forum (April 11, 2007)
2000s
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: Today, at the dawn of the 21st Century, we need a foreign policy that addresses the classic security threats — and understands the new ones as well. We need a new approach for a new century — grounded in our own economic and security interests, but uplifted by what is right in the world. We need to pursue a policy of "forward engagement" — addressing problems early in their development before they become crises; addressing them as close to the source of the problem as possible; and having the forces and resources to deal with those threats as soon after their emergence as possible.
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in “The Two Planes of International Reality” in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4