Foreign Policy Decisions

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

“When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection, I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)