The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
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.
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.