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United States Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
- The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.
- The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
- Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a…
- Israel deserves special treatment from the United States, both for historical reasons and because there can be no regional peace without a secure Israel.
- As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.
- Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the…
- The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
- What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American…
- After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.
- Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal…
- The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried…
- No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
- Most Pakistani politics is conducted within a narrow spectrum. Politicians spend much time debating the best ways to fight India, or take Kashmir, or dominate…
- Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.
- The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands…
- American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and…
- With the exception of China, and perhaps Turkey, no country in the world matters as much to the United States as Mexico.
- It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other…
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation. — Michele Bachmann
- Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war. — Michele Bachmann
- When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks… — Michele Bachmann