“...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.”
“A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.”
“All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]”
“collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.”
“His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?”
“Street Crime is the only logical response to America's drug policy just as terrorism is the only logical response to America's foreign policy”