Erin O'Toole Quotes

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

There are two things that are very expensive in international relations: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail

We do not agree with policies that would lead to attempts at easing sanctions or lifting them and returning to business as usual with Russia. We believe that such behaviour will only embolden the aggressive behavior of Russia, as the last 12 years have shown, starting with Russia's attack on Georgia in 2008.

Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

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.