James G. Abourezk Quotes

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

I am appalled. Any attempt on our part actively to encourage a coup could lead us to a Bay of Pigs failure.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

…the CIA has never carried out any action of a political nature, given any support of any nature, to any persons, potentates or movements, political or otherwise, without appropriate approval at a high potential level in our government outside the CIA.

My husband and brother—in—law had been treacherously killed with either the official or unofficial blessing of the American government… No one can seriously believe in the disclaimer that the Americans have nothing to do with the present situation in Vietnam.

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

We shouldn't send CIA spooks to overthrow governments.

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

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

There is every prospect that events arising out of our growing foreign investment will present us in the future with decisions involving war and peace, will bring us, whether we like it or not, to concern ourselves with distant causes.

...though it is England's right to enforce the law of Europe [i.e. treaties] as between contending states, she has no claim, so long as her own interests are untouched, to interfere in the national affairs of any country, whatever the extent of its misgovernment or its anarchy.

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.

In our fervor to halt the potential spread of totalitarianism, what incredible precedent are we setting in Vietnam? By marching our legions through the countryside of foreign continents, burning homes, laying waste to the land, and indiscriminately killing friend and foe alike?

We do not agree with policies that would lead to attempts at easing sanctions or lifting them and returning to business as usual with Russia. We believe that such behaviour will only embolden the aggressive behavior of Russia, as the last 12 years have shown, starting with Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008.

A Conservative government under Andrew Scheer would implement a coherent China strategy, taking a harder line on China's missteps.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.