Jill Stein Quotes

… a visceral fear of appeasement has led to entirely avoidable disasters

For 60 years, my country. The United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy … in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

I think interventions tend to be wrong. That doesn't mean to say that every intervention has been a disaster, but it does mean that generally they tend to screw up.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Iraq is not about oil.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

Why take sides in the fractious squabbles of a quarrelsome continent?

This Middle East thing is maddening.

We are pursuing neither law nor peace in Southeast Asia. We are not even pursuing freedom.

Our country is being bled daily in an effort to create a democracy in a place where it never existed.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

Everything in the Middle East is connected to everything else

In war, there is hardly a more horrifying example of the head-long plunge into reckless militarism than what Hillary Clinton led the way on in Libya.

Libya is a huge disaster.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone.

A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

You know what I gave to Russia? You know what I gave? Nothing.

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.