Global Policing Quotes

We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years.

I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread most, a "domestic disturbance.

America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we cannot help everywhere.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

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

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

We have no constitutional authority to police the world or involve ourselves in nation building, in making the world safe for our style of democracy. Our founders advised against it and the early presidents followed that advice.

[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.

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.

As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

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

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.

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

Is it our party's position that Americans are rich enough to police the world but not rich enough to take care of our own?

It's expensive to police the world.

There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.

America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.