“A prominent businessman who does a lot of business with the Soviet Union calls to keep me posted on a construction project I’m interested in undertaking in Moscow. The idea got off the ground after I sat next to the Soviet Ambassador, Yuri Dubinin, at a luncheon held by Leonard Lauder, a great busin…”— Donald Trump, books.google.com
“Selina Meyer: Can I really blame another country for something they didn't do? Ben Cafferty: It's been the cornerstone of American foreign policy since the Spanish-American War.”— Steve Koren, Selina Meyer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“As opposed to this, we National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely, to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitled on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and our German posterity, would make any sacrifice of…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?”— Ron Paul, ibtimes.com
“Hillary Clinton's history of supporting interventionism puts her in a weird place to be portraying her opponent as trigger happy.”— Yousef Munayyer, commondreams.org
“Don DeLillo is the only person I can think of who has confronted these questions of, you know, the individual who finds himself negotiating both vast currents of history and a very specific kind of power dynamics. That’s his milieu. And that’s what it’s like to work in the U.S. foreign-policy appara…”— Ben Rhodes, nytimes.com
“I understand "foreign policy" from the practical standpoint: I know how to make deals, bring foreign governments to the table, and negotiate deals that don't give everything away.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Many of the lessons I've learned in business are applicable to our current situation. The most important lesson is this—Stand behind your word, and make sure your word stands up. People who have done business with me will tell you that I never say something unless I mean it. I don't make promises I…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“We need a leader who is going to restore the respect this country enjoyed in the past. I'm criticized for not issuing elaborate, detailed policy statements. What good are detailed plans if your country doesn't have the credibility to carry them out—but I issue them anyway.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Making America Great Again means standing by our word. We've watched President Obama draw a line in the sand, then another line in the sand, then no line at all. We've become an embarrassment to ourselves and to our history.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“We're spending billions of dollars protecting countries that should be paying us to do the job yet we can't build roads in our own cities. We can't build schools in our own communities. I've been to China numerous times, and everywhere you look there are cranes reaching toward the sky. The Chinese b…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I believe in always putting the interests of American citizens first— always. There aren’t any second or third places. That level of commitment is what has been missing for so long in our foreign policy, in our trade policy, in our immigration policy. Somewhere we started worrying too much about wha…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“By nature, I’m a conservative person. I believe in a strong work ethic, traditional values, being frugal in many ways and aggressive in military and foreign policy. I support a tight interpretation of the Constitution, which means judges should stick to precedent and not write social policy.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I don’t want people to know exactly what I’m doing— or thinking. I like being unpredictable.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“Tipping your hand is one of the dumbest mistakes you can make in a military confrontation.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I’ve always loved and admired the Jewish people and supported the special relationship we have with Israel. The next president has to restore our traditionally strong partnership. We have been there for Israel and will continue to be there for Israel, because it is the one stable democracy in that r…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“If we’re going to continue to be the policemen of the world, we ought to be paid for it.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com