Stephen M. Walt Quotes

If we don’t do the right thing, other nations won’t either.

Nations are what their deeds are.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.

I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

The United States … has never been isolated, never can be isolated, and has no desire to be isolated. The people of the United States are not only ready but willing and desirous to help their fellow-men, especially those of western civilization, in any way that is possible.

I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

The United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most egregious of human rights violations from both our allies and our enemies.

If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit.

Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help other countries in need. Foreign aid is essential to protecting U.S. interests around the world, and it is also a moral responsibility of the wealthiest, most powerful nation.

The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

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

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.