Bill Burr Quotes

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

People the world over now see democracy promotion as a dishonest, dangerous cover for the protection of U. S. power and influence.

Multinational unions are created in a search for more power. This leads either to irresponsible warfare as a result of meddling in foreign affairs, or to irresponsible alliances.

We’re not the world’s policeman. Nor the world’s judge, jury and executioner.

No American president will ever pay a political price for choosing national security over world opinion.

Robert Kagan said the neocons couldn't get a better president than Hillary Clinton, who would enforce the neocon foreign policy. No one's questioned it.

On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

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.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

For eight years, you had the Bush administration with a very interventionist policy, driving into world affairs, driving primarily into the Islamic world, army first or fist first.

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.