Warren Beatty Quotes

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

For every effort we make to assist someone beyond our own borders, we take something away from our own

You help us pay for the war we’ll fight; we’ll launch it while you’re asleep at night. We don’t need friends all around the world; We’ll buy our friends with our flag unfurled, And spread our arms on a global scale To show the world that we still prevail. Oh, we’re not leaders inspiring peace, But we’re in power as the world’s police. So pay your tax for our little war, And we’ll not ask for any more. This year!

America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we cannot help everywhere.

As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

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.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

... advancing against disease, hunger and poverty ... are ... the moral purpose of American influence.

I am concerned about Africa. You can’t have 600 million people of one identifiable ethnicity going backwards and the rest of the world going forwards.

The British can not alone act as the policemen of the world.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

Obviously there is not money enough in the world to relieve the suffering of the peoples of the underdeveloped areas, but ... there is, for the first time in history, enough knowledge to do the job.

The Republicans throw money at crime and military defense the way the Democrats do at poverty and welfare.

In peace and war it's always money.

The Democrats are the party of war.

The day where America can be the welfare system for Mexico is gone.

There is one phase of our competition which should be brought under control —competing with each other in fueling the arms race in the Third World.... Most of these countries are desperately poor, and they need economic assistance far more than they need additional arms .... Even thought these are only non-nuclear arms, they are instrumentalities of war, and small wars always have the potential of escalating into nuclear wars.

… taking money from the thrifty to keep the improvident

Denmark must not be the social security office for the rest of the world.

[When abroad:] Examine [politics] influence on the happiness of the people: take every possibility of entering into the hovels of the labourers ... see what they eat, how they are cloathed, whether they are obliged to labour too hard; whether the government or their landlord takes from them an unjust proportion of their labour.