Joseph Stalin Quotes

[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don't have to interfere in any other country. Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that's why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That's the problem with the American role.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

The American nation cannot reach across the planet and pick the leadership of other countries.

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?

I'd advise my American friends not to meddle in the internal affairs of China.

We must make it clear that we won't interfere in other countries' elections and work to make that the clear international norm.

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

Tehran believes it's none of our business or anybody else's to decide the future of personalities in other countries.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Historically, we were always complaining about others interfering in our domestic and national issues.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

The main challenge for American foreign policy in many places is not to influence relations between states but rather to influence events within states.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

We should not pretend that we can remake the domestic structures of governments all over the world.

Promoting democracy is one goal of U. S. foreign policy dating back at least 100 years. But it has always been one goal of many, often negated and outweighed by other competing interests.

No Americans may be involved in any operations partaking of a military character in Indonesia

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

We do not worry about how a sovereign country keeps its relations with others.