"During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy."

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"During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy."

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"We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

Policy, Bombs, Country, Foreign policy

"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Policy, Honesty, Children, World

"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

Barry Commoner, American Scientist

Policy, Interest, Labor

"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."

Vaclav Klaus, Czechoslovakian Statesman

Policy, Will

"In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought."

Elihu Root, American Lawyer

Policy, Aggression, Country, Desire

"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."

Joe Biden, American Vice President

Policy, Extremes, Foreignpolicy

"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."

Ron Davies, Welsh Politician

Policy,

"The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Policy, Committee, Credibility, Television

"We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Policy, Country, Destruction

"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."

William Scranton, American Politician

Policy, Energy, First, Press

Explore more quotes by Gustav Stresemann

"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."

Peace

"The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past."

Beauty

"The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally."

Man

"Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between."

Beginning

"Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation."

Diplomacy

"A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists."

People

"Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage."

Thought

"A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind."

Nature

"The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action."

History

"But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation."

Change