Vladimir Putin Quotes

The U.S. efforts to impose its policies on others are expanding as a threat to all.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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.

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.

... a renunciation of our further intention to maintain the Monroe Doctrine and would proclaim that we had joined the horde of European greed in attempting to absorb as many of the weaker powers on earth as possible.

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

What takes place in America today was caused by the flagrant interference on the part of successive American governments into others’ business. These governments imposed regimes that contradict the faith, values, and lifestyle of the people.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

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

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

… an imperialist alliance

Perhaps we have already intervened too much in the affairs of other peoples.

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

Although no one likes a hegemon, America will be a better hegemon than others would be.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

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.