The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. . . . Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain. We're supposed to go after what we want, not question whether we really need it.
Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers.
Nothing human is foreign to us
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.
If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.
MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.
All of life is a foreign country.
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.
How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.
Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change.
I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
It is U. S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U. S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
If European countries want to cater to U. S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.