Change Quote by William Blum

It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace…

— Michael Ignatieff

“It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War,…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“Reagan’s activity in foreign affairs is not an improvisation, is not a chain of spontaneous initiatives, but a carefully planned and coordinated action, something…

— Peter Schweizer

“the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the American Medical Association, the automobile…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then…

— Noam Chomsky

“Rather than offering an antidote to problems, the military system centered on the all-volunteer force bred and exacerbated them. It underwrote recklessness in the…

— Andrew J. Bacevich

Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win. This was…

— Ann Coulter

“Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government,…

— David Halberstam

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers…

— Michael Wolff

“Unlike European empires, ours was supposed to entail a concert of equal, sovereign democratic American republics, with shared interests and values, led but not…

— Greg Grandin

“The Obama administration has also conspired with foreign elements to reduce the constitutional liberties of the American people.”

— Andrew McCarthy