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foreign affairs

«Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.»
«This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim»
«What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.»
«The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.»
«The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.»
«I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.»
«Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe»