Evan Hunter Quotes

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

Only idiots would believe that the U.S. is a democratic country seeking democracy in other countries

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

The cornerstone of our policy in that part of the world is to help democracies. Lebanon's a democracy. We want the Siniora government to succeed.

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.

Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart.

You look at the Americans. They don't lack fervour in moral causes. They promote democracy, freedom of speech, women's rights, gay rights, sometimes even transgender rights. But you don't see them applying that universally across the world with all their allies.

There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.

When foreigners struggle for their freedoms, they've long expected the U.S. government to be the first to stand with them.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Back in the 1950s, America set out to intervene in Syria, liberate the people from a corrupt elite, and bring about a new democracy. They did this with the best of intentions, but it led to disaster. And out of that disaster, the Assad regime rose to power.

While American interests in the Middle East must obviously be protected, America's credibility to support democracy for everyone everywhere is crucial.

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning upon the world the magnitude of the action that the Soviets undertook in invading Afghanistan.

I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don't share.

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

I'm not going to be an interpreter at the U.N. I'm not going to live in Africa on a farm or whatever, but I am going to see the world through those eyes when I make those films.

I think what we need to do is understand our number one obligation is to act in the national interest of the United States of America. I believe it is in our national interest to see democracy take hold on the island of Cuba. And so we examine our foreign policy, including all the changes that President Obama made, in that lens and through that lens.

Bernie Sanders is a disappointment on foreign policy, totally doesn't think about it. But he has the possibility to be more isolationist, which would be good for us actually. We manage to kill several million people on this planet without taking any credit for it or blame. It's a heavy karma we have.