The United States was born with an imperialist impulse…

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

— Noam Chomsky

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine…

— Carlos Fuentes

We should have an army so organized and so officered as to be capable in time of emergency, in cooperation with the National Militia,…

— William Howard Taft

“just as the Monroe Doctrine gave the same rights to the USA in South America.”

— Ken Follett

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the…

— E. Howard Hunt

The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

— Dambisa Moyo

“The State Department Policy Planning Council soon expanded on these concerns: “the primary danger we face in Castro,” it concluded, is “in the impact…

— Keith Bolender

If you want to look at the Monroe Doctrine and what happened when we wrote that, we stated what the business would be for…

— Harry Belafonte

I consider Monroe a pretty minor president. In spite of the Monroe Doctrine. That's the only important thing he ever did more or less…

— Harry S. Truman

“Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideological arsenal, and both are continental powers…

— Patrick Mendis

“China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.”

— Patrick Mendis

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and…

— G. Edward Griffin

We need a new Monroe Doctrine for the Western Hemisphere, one that prioritizes the security and prosperity for the United States and our neighbors.

— Michael Waltz

What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere.

— Noam Chomsky