Foreign Policy
The foreign policy of the United States defines how the United States interacts with foreign nations. It addresses the security of the American people and promotes international order. The following are the most prominent foreign policies of the United States:
- Refocusing on the threat from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Ending the war in Iraq responsibly
- Keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists
- Promoting peace and security in Israel and the Middle East
- Re-energizing America’s alliances
- Maintaining core American values
- Restoring American leadership in Latin America
- Ensuring energy security and fighting climate change
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Famous quotes containing the words foreign policy, foreign and/or policy:
“Maybe it’s understandable what a history of failures America’s foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America’s miniature schnauzer—a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
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—Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)