#reign

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

#department #desperately #foreign #foreign policy #foreign service

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#america #american #american writers #country #feel

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars. ↗

— Steve Israel

#burden #children #cost #debt #dollars

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe. ↗

— Joni Eareckson Tada

#love

Freewill does not impune the sovereignty of God, it in fact affirms it. ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#freewill #r-alan-woods #sovereignty-of-god #r-alan-woods

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#forces #foreign #iraq #occupied #soil

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#foreigner #his #like #man #own

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#borders #called #control #controlling #destiny

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#democracy #freely #function #institutions #must