Charley Reese Quotes

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

In the international world, when General Electric walks into the room, the Sixth Fleet walks in behind them.

Practical and obvious interests of all the capitalistic powers have demanded the development, consolidation and expansion of trade with Russia.

We denounce the mercenary system of foreign policy under recent administrations in the interest of financial imperialists, oil monopolists, and international bankers, which has at times degraded our State Department from its high service as a strong and kindly intermediary of defenseless governments to a trading outpost of those interest and concession seekers engaged in the exploitation of weaker nations, as contrary to the will of the American people, destructive of domestic development and provocative of war.

Hillary talks the talk, but in my view, she is as big a corporatist, as big a war monger, as big an imperialist as any of the Republican presidential candidates. Her rhetoric is less offensive.

At the present moment in world history, nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

U. S. foreign policy in the 20th century was characterized by disastrous oscillations between over-commitment and isolation

Our object is wholly new in the world. It is singular: it is grown up to this magnitude and importance within the memory of man; nothing in history is parallel to it… In this new system, a principle of commerce, of artificial commerce, must prevail.

It was my duty to protect the people of America from the impossible burden of annexing Mexico

[William Howard] Taft was the last serious anti-interventionist presidential candidate in U. S. history.

England’s drama is to be forced to choose between the remains of her Empire at the price of American hegemony and a loyal commitment to the continent.

Capital has never been circumcised by state boundaries …. The welfare of … electorates depends on capitalism. The reverse is not always the case. Capital can relocate elsewhere; electorates cannot.

Nor should we assume that a nation's foreign policy is simply the logical outgrowth of general national conceptions. It is rather the result of many diverse forces, practical as well as patriotic.

As long as Americans believe that their country has vital interests everywhere on earth, they will behave the same.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations more secure, meaning our commitments overseas also makes us stronger and safer here at home.

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

People focus too much on whether there's a Democrat or a Republican in office. It's not like this guy Kim-Jong Un got into power the second Trump got into power. It's not like he wasn't a problem. It's not like we haven't had warmongers. It's not like corporations haven't been the main influence on what we're doing around the world.

Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception, not the norm.

The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.