Ro Khanna Quotes

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.

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

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

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

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

You can't build a foreign policy on the presence of an individual [a particular foreign leader].

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

The American preoccupation with promoting democracy abroad fits into a larger liberal view about the sources of a stable, legitimate, secure, and prosperous international order.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

We’re not the world’s policeman. Nor the world’s judge, jury and executioner.

No country can decide for another county.

The situation that exists among nations in their relations to one another is such that it tempts even those who ordinarily come far short of cynicism to say that there is no connection between ethics and international relations.

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..

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

I can't stress enough how strongly I am against any state intervention in a sovereign nation's affairs.

The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.

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

We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world.

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

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