Gary Johnson Quotes

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

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

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

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.

When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

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.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

Throughout history states have also used force to reform, restructure, or rebuild the domestic institutions of other countries

The Constitution doesn't follow the flag abroad.

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

Such recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to intervene and pacify the Island.

International law seeks to avoid the use of force but does not preclude it.

Americans must not be given the impression that they have a duty to go to war against every evil leader in the world and against every transgression of the international order.

The war is going to end because we're gonna have such a political and financial havoc here with the devaluation of our dollar, because we just can't keep affording it. This is usually how empires end, by spending too much money maintaining their empire. We're in 130 countries, we have 700 bases around the world, and it's going to come to an end. I want it to come to an end more gracefully and peacefully, follow the constitution, and follow a more sensible foreign policy.

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..

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

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.