Gary Johnson Quotes

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

I don’t like genocide, but I would not commit our troops [to stop it.]

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

Effective intervention ended Sierra Leone’s civil war, while nonintervention condemned Rwanda to genocide.

We seem to have an obligation to protect if a dictator is going to rapidly kill many of his people on CNN. We do not seem to have the same obligation if he will kill his people slowly and not on CNN.

National sovereignty is never an excuse for slaughtering your own people

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

The security agencies are prosecuting the government’s war in Darfur.

There are, however, cases in which, while our own interests are not greatly involved, strong appeal is made to our sympathies.... in extreme cases action may be justifiable and proper. What form the action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the case; that is, upon the degree of the atrocity and upon our power to remedy it.

Countries can’t stand by as a genocide takes place in another country.

World leaders always prefer to ignore a genocide, but when forced to face the horrors … they figure out ways of responding. The most acute need is not for policies but for political will.