#foreign affairs

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#course #foreign #foreign affairs #his #humanitarian

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#anything #because #believe #credit #ever

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. ↗

— Richard Kerry

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We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of. ↗

— Talib Kweli

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