Top 21 Quotes About Foreign Intervention
#1. Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie
#2. Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.
Alex Pareene
#3. Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.
Talaat Pasha
#4. The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
Noam Chomsky
#5. It is the line soldier who ultimately pays for any foreign intervention,
Stephen King
#6. We are a fighting nation, continually struggling to overcome diseases from within ... and to face up to foreign intervention from without.
Sukarno
#7. [Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
Michael Moore
#8. No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.
Vladimir Putin
#9. The point was simply this: the most important thing we could never forget was that we could never forget.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#10. If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.
Fareed Zakaria
#11. It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.
Vladimir Putin
#12. Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.
William Carlos Williams
#13. Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.
Max Baucus
#14. I am against intervention by a foreign power against us.
Moshe Sharett
#15. One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.
Martin Jacques
#16. Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.
Meg Rosoff
#17. The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.
Rory Stewart
#18. You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.
Tom Brokaw
#21. My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
Michele Bachmann
