Foreign Policy Programme

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

“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

“’Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“Men must learn now with pity to dispense,
For policy sits above conscience.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The idealist’s programme of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)