Robert Mugabe 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.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

Throughout history states have also used force to reform, restructure, or rebuild the domestic institutions of other countries

What takes place in America today was caused by the flagrant interference on the part of successive American governments into others’ business. These governments imposed regimes that contradict the faith, values, and lifestyle of the people.

Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

The U.S. efforts to impose its policies on others are expanding as a threat to all.

The logic of the human rights movement is imperialist. I don't think it was necessarily intended this way. But once you talk about categories like international justice, or you talk about bringing people to justice, or an end to impunity -- I'm just using the standard slogans of the human rights movement -- if you're really serious about that, the only way to do it is by at least the possible use of force. The human rights movement, whether wittingly or unwittingly, has increasingly become a force for a recolonization of the world, in the name of rights…. the human rights movement, if it had its way, would plunge us into epics of war.

... a renunciation of our further intention to maintain the Monroe Doctrine and would proclaim that we had joined the horde of European greed in attempting to absorb as many of the weaker powers on earth as possible.

… an imperialist alliance

The United States must learn to rebuild states after overturning their regimes.

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.

It is not Americans right to impose their values upon us.

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.