Quotes About Intervention

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

America has spent too long interfering oversees in too many other people's wars, and too much other stuff.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

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.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.