Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio--empt...y boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how--has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades.... Here at home--within the family, so to speak--our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has be...en characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreig...n or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see little hope for a peaceful world until men are excluded from the realm of foreign policy altogether and all decisions concer...ning international relations are reserved for women, preferably married ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can only be one Commander-in-Chief. In these times, crises cannot be managed and wars cannot be waged by committee. To the e...ars of the world, the President speaks for the nation. While he is of course ultimately accountable to Congress, the courts, and the people, he and his emissaries must not be handicapped in advance in their relations with foreign governments as has sometimes happened in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am ... willing to make it clear that American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cor...nerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
International relations is security, it's trade relations, it's power games. It's not good-and-bad. But what I saw in Yugoslavia w...as pure evil. Not ethnic hatred--that's only like a label. I really had a feeling there that I am observing unleashed human evil ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »