Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiko Noda

I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Samantha Power

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Menachem Begin

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Pico Iyer

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Richard Engel

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Bill Richardson

We have a good relationship with Russia, ... President Yeltsin was not pleased he was not consulted, but the Russian government -- the foreign ministry -- said that they supported the effort.

Mario Andretti

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

Mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors will be a market highlight this year. Banks, retailers and steel-making stocks will be favorites.

Why would an Iraqi group release biographies of foreign fighters?

It hasn't been influenced by me, my colleagues, or foreign government influence,

Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

My sense is that at least in this state, Kerry is playing to tie on the foreign policy questions and the so-called values issues, the shorthand for which is God and guns. He comes into Ohio and he talks about being a sportsman, he talks about his military record, he talks about his faith, but he probably can't win on those issues,

News that four foreign oil workers held hostage by Nigerian militants have been released (was) helping prices to ease back a bit.

Further meetings were held by the two foreign ministries and this is the result.

Joyce Banda

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Sonny Lubick

I don't think we were overconfident. Any time we play a foreign offense like we did, our players know we've got to make some plays and get them in third-and-8 (situations).

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

He's had this injury three times before, so it's not too foreign to him. He won't do much for the next week or two, but as soon as he's right he will be back up and playing pretty much straight away.

I would say since the Second World War, it was the most interesting time to be the foreign editor.

Howard Baker

I think it is a great tribute to the Government of Japan and to those who were handling it, including the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister, that we were able to negotiate at the highest levels - I mean the President, the Secretary of State, and then my opportunity - without high emotionalism.

I think it is wrong. I don't think it is safe to work with these foreign companies.

There is a knee-jerk reaction to this short-term political concern. But should foreign investors realize that this is not for the short term, they may be prompted to sell as well.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.