Bashir Assad Quotes

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

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

I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

America rules the world - by force.

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.

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

The United States can't go in and impose order on chaos every place in the world.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

I think that Russia is very aware that they are on notice when it comes to certain issues. They are very aware that we do want to try and defeat ISIS together, if that's at all possible, along with our allies. But there's no love or anything going on with Russia right now. They get that we're getting our strength back, that we're getting our voice back, and that we're starting to lead again. And honestly, at the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.

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