Emma Bonino Quotes

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

I saw no reason why other nations should tell Central Americans how to solve their problems.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

[The Kosovo intervention] would set a dangerous precedent to commit our troops to fighting civil wars for independence in every corner of the world.

We do not have the God-given right to intervene in any country in which we feel like intervening.

A stable world may be one in which the United States can act to secure peace without fear of a nuclear attack.

I make a supreme appeal for the diplomatic intervention of Your Majesty’s government to safeguard the integrity of Belgium.

History asks of us that we never act unilaterally, never alone, but only within the alliances of NATO, the United Nations and the European Union as it is clearly specified in international law

We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

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

Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

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

Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.

In a democracy the People are entitled to determine the Ends or general aims of foreign policy.