Quote

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it.