Ted Deutch Quotes

That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

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

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

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.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

America is different. It irks and domineers. But it does not conquer. It tries to call the shots and bend the rules, but it does not go to war for land and glory.

We live in the age of the American empire.

The United States is proud of her remoteness from the old world, her freedom from entanglement in its quarrels, her isolation. Yet in her relatively very short history as an independent state she has fought at least six foreign wars while her troops have landed on foreign soil on nearly a hundred occasions. Not one of those wars was for the purpose of defending American soil.

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

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

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

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.

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

The United States can't be sheriff of the whole world.

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

The British can not alone act as the policemen of the world.