Generalizations Quote by John Negroponte

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.

— Stephen Kinzer

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

— Jesse Jackson

Saddam Hussein was the one person after whom the United States went, and they ruined the country.

— Sergei Lavrov

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

— Salman Rushdie

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

— Frederic William Maitland

The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the…

— Noam Chomsky

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

— Dolly Parton

A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure that the…

— Michael Beschloss

Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.

— Noam Chomsky

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on…

— Isabel Allende

The horror and tragedy that was 9/11 did many things; one of them was to galvanize this country and much of the world against…

— Richard N. Haass