Intervention Quotes

“The idea that we’re leaving it to the market is a fiction.”

“The jungle will grow back, if we let it.”

“We cannot be the world's fire brigade.”

“Anarchy is a magnet for intervention.”

“Regime change has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States.”

“We are not the world's policeman.”

“The national government must step in and discriminate; but it must discriminate, not on behalf of liberty and the special individual, but on behalf of equality and the average man.”

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”

“We went to Afghanistan to protect our interests, not to nation-build.”

“We don't want to be the world's policeman, but we may have to be the world's sheriff.”

“There is no such thing as a 'humanitarian intervention'.”

“Change coming from the outside is not change at all.”

“If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to a mental illness. We have to get to people before they do that.”

“We've got to stop being the world's policeman. We've got to stop being the world's ATM.”

“There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the bonds of common humanity as interfering with it.”

“The moral case for military intervention is about saving lives.”

“We have to be smart about how we use our power. We can't be the world's policeman.”

“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.”

“Each of the more than 50 governments that the United States has attempted to overthrow since the Second World War has been a government that has posed a challenge to the American Empire.”

“We're not the world's policeman.”