“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
Campaign stop, Redwood, California, September 27, 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/nov/04/uselections2000.usa5 <br class="br">2000s, 2000
“A foreign minister who knew little of foreign affairs and nothing of foreign policy.”
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946) German general
Robert H. Jackson
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam (1915–2006) Early life
Professor Chan Heng Chee, Singapore Ambassador to the United States.
“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
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
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
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.
“… foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
Fareed Zakaria book The Post-American World
Source: The Post-American World
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1843/jul/28/state-of-the-nation#column_1462 in the House of Commons (28 July 1843) <br class="br">1840s
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 15, p. 229.
Collected Works
“Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.”
William Pfaff (1928–2015) American journalist
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 146.