"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
~ Howard Zinn
"The central aim of American foreign policy has traditionally been to dominate the western hemisphere while not permitting another great power to dominate Europe or Northeast Asia. The United States has not wanted a peer competitor."
~ John Mearsheimer
"Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?"
~ Ron Paul
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
~ William E. Gladstone
