Century Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

“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

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

In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated.

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

— Pat Robertson

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This leaves only two options: disintegration, or a new dictatorship ... no, there is a third, and I shall not be so pessimistic as…

— Salman Rushdie

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition…

— Tariq Ali

“So in both the West and the emerging world the state is in trouble. The mystery is why so many people assume that radical…

— John Micklethwait