Robert H. Jackson
“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
“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
“Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer”
Frank Bainimarama (1954) Prime Minister of Fiji
Context: Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: "I do not see the Military Commander of Fiji as a political player in all this. Let me make this very clear: it is not the job of a military commander to play politics; it is the job of the military commander to command troops and the Government is to decide where those troops get deployed, whether to Iraq or RAMSI. It is not the role of the commander to play domestic politics." (29 September 2005, on Bainimarama's opposition to the Reconciliation and Unity Bill (q. v).
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
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
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (1915–2006) Early life
Professor Chan Heng Chee, Singapore Ambassador to the United States.
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q=&quot;I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs&quot;&pg=PA82#v=onepage
“a "mixture of frustration and progress is the daily grind of foreign affairs."”
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
“… foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
Fareed Zakaria book The Post-American World
Source: The Post-American World
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (1915–2006) Early life
20 April 1977.
