Rand Paul Quotes

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

Promoting democracy is one goal of U. S. foreign policy dating back at least 100 years. But it has always been one goal of many, often negated and outweighed by other competing interests.

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

I don’t think America wants democracies in the Middle East. They wouldn’t be nearly as friendly to us

The United States can't go in and impose order on chaos every place in the world.

Perhaps we have already intervened too much in the affairs of other peoples.

We should not act as if we were an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments.

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

For the 30 years I have been involved with U. S. national security, our policy has been shaped by the assumption that we could shape other countries’ policies throughout the world. This has always been a bit of a myth.

It’s not America’s job to fix the Middle East. Our job is to look after our own interests..

Americans might not want to intervene in the outside world, but the outside world will still want to intervene in America.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.

I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I also think regime change in Syria is a bad idea. And that's an ongoing question. It's one of the things I like about Donald Trump, one of the reasons I endorsed him is he thinks regime change is a mistake. But John Bolton thinks completely the opposite. They are diametric opposites.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.