“But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.”

— Ram Swarup

Ram Swarup quoted in : Sita Ram Goel. How I Became a Hindu (1982, enlarged 1993) ISBN 81-85990-05-0 (ch. 7) http://web.archive.org/web/20140409110816/http://bharatvani.org/books/hibh/ch7.htm

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Indian historian 1920–1998

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

How I became a Hindu (1982)

“Anybody can criticize me, except for foreigners.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

The Manila Times, Duterte: ‘Anybody can criticize me, except foreigners’ https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/05/03/news/latest-stories/duterte-anybody-can-criticize-me-except-foreigners/396588/ (May 2018)
On criticism

“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
2000s, 2000

“[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.”

Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment

Source: Monstrous Regiment

“Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners… for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments”

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President

in the hands of imperialism
al-Dimuqratiyya Masdar Quwwa li al-Fard wa al-Mujtama, 1977, quoted in Saddam Hussein: a political biography (2002) by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.

“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”

Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general

Robert H. Jackson

“There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign”

Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters

The Silverado Squatters.
Context: There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the ear.

“We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.”

Frances Mayes book Under the Tuscan Sun

Source: Under the Tuscan Sun

“It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.”

V.S. Pritchett (1900–1997) British writer and critic

Quoted in " How Did I Do That? http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/pritchett-complete.html" by Deborah Stead, in The New York Times (24 March 1991)

“But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman.”

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