#foreign

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#country #exactly #foreign #idea #meditation

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors

U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #black hat #foreign #foreign policy #go

Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. ↗

— Chuck Hagel

#ahead #american #american interests #credibility #foreign

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life. ↗

— John Mahoney

#going #i #life #like #living

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#attention deficit #deficit #disorder #foreign #foreign policy

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#country #efforts #extremism #focusing #foreign

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#always #being #car #fact #foreigner

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#english #foreigner #independent #only #social

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#american #assistance #certainly #course #foreign