M. Shadows Quotes

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

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

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

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

The United States can't go in and impose order on chaos every place in the world.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

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

Americans cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.

I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

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.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

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.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

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