Foreign Policy Decisions

Famous quotes containing the words foreign policy, foreign, policy and/or decisions:

“In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.”
—James Reston (b. 1909)

“Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.”
—Stephen Decatur (1779–1820)

“We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)