I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

Foreign policy is about the execution of ideas as much as their formulation.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.