J. William Fulbright Quotes

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.

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.

Shouldn't India, too, like other countries, protect its national interests?

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

the cornerstone of our foreign policy. But that does not entail a passive or submissive acceptance of political, economic, or cultural dependence.

In most nations, public opinion is in revolt against foreign policy.

The American nation cannot reach across the planet and pick the leadership of other countries.

Are we Uncle Sam or Uncle Sucker?

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

I don’t consider myself an isolationist. I consider myself a non-interventionist.

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..

President Obama came to office with a strong belief that America had overreached, that we had become too involved. It matched the national mood, and indeed, there was some evidence that it was true.

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

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.

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.

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.