“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“Americans have a tendency to believe that because we are Americans, our actions are automatically benevolent.”— Andrew J. Bacevich
“My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please.”— Ernest Bevin
“When we talk about our national security, we must remember that our alliances are our greatest strength.”— Chris Van Hollen
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented.”— George F. Kennan
“This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.”— George F. Kennan
“The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”— George F. Kennan
“We need a foreign policy that is not defined by war, but by diplomacy, development, and democracy.”— Barbara Lee
“The single greatest threat to our national security is failed and failing states.”— Andrew Natsios
“The United States is the locomotive at the head of mankind, and the rest of the world the caboose.”— Dean Acheson