Lanka Foreign Policy

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

“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)

“The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.”
—Karl Von Clausewitz (1780–1831)