Frank Carlucci Quotes

Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.

Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate.

Countries often democratize in clusters within regions of the world..

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another- of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East.

Deep in my heart, I still believe that the democratization of Russia and the democratization of Ukraine will proceed.

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.

We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.

A free and democratic Arab world aligns with America's security interests.

No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.

I think that there is a limit on how far you can export democracy.

Democratic reform, depends less on legislative amendments than on creating a climate of democracy.

My goal for the Arab world is to change the status quo, which is horrible politically, religiously, economically, in every way.

We keep looking at democratization as an event—like the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it’s actually a process.

The United State can no longer allow its Arab allies to ward off democratic reform.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

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.

The West interfered into Japan’s affairs …and managed to save Japan from tyranny. Today, Japan is regarded as a model of democracy, of liberties and all the advantages that the West has produced.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .

I don't put any dates on these things. I don't say what is going to happen in one year, five years, ten years, but I am confident that the trend toward freedom in the Communist world is a basic truth.

The concepts of "democracy promotion" and "transformational diplomacy" pursued by the George W. Bush Administration conditioned interstate relations on altering any system of government that did not match Washington's understanding of democracy.