Intervention Quotes

“We will not stand idly by.”

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

“We're being attacked because we're over there, we're not being attacked because we're over here.”

“We have intervened in their world for fifty years, and we have caused them enormous pain.”

“I am not convinced that we are in a position to be the policemen of the world.”

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

“We can't be the world's policeman, but we can't be an ostrich either, sticking our head in the sand.”

“I don't think that we can be the policeman of the world.”

“The United States has been remarkably unsuccessful at spreading democracy by force.”