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)

“If you don’t know foreign languages, you don’t know anything about your own.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.”
—A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale)

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