
'Strong president, parliament needed to achieve goals' (June 22, 2018) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/strong-president-parliament-needed-to-achieve-goals/1182516
Remarks on the Gulf War on ITV, On the Record (3 February 1991), quoted in The Times (4 February 1991), p. 5.
Post-Prime Ministerial
'Strong president, parliament needed to achieve goals' (June 22, 2018) https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/strong-president-parliament-needed-to-achieve-goals/1182516
Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun (1971) quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy, by Marilyn Ferguson, Chapter 5 (1980)
1970s
"McCain's National Greatness Conservatism", The Daily Dish (26 February 2008) http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/02/mccains-national-greatness-conservatism/219614/
Context: In the Cold War, I was pro-American. The world needed a counter-weight to the evils of expansionist, imperial communism. (But I was never an American utopian. There's nothing new in humanity in this country — just a better system and more freedom, which tends to be the best corrective against sustained error.) After the Cold War, I saw no reason to oppose a prudent American policy of selective interventionism to deter evil and advance good a little, but even in the Balkans, such a policy did not require large numbers of ground troops and was enabled by strong alliances. After 9/11, I was clearly blinded by fear of al Qaeda and deluded by the overwhelming military superiority of the US and the ease of democratic transitions in Eastern Europe into thinking we could simply fight our way to victory against Islamist terror. I wasn't alone. But I was surely wrong. Haven't the last few years been a sobering learning experience? Haven't we discovered that allies actually are important, that fear is no substitute for cold assessment of self-interest, that saying something will happen is not that same thing as it actually happening?
That someone could come out of the last few years believing that Teddy Roosevelt's American imperialism is a model for the future is a little hard for me to understand.
“There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 52
Speeches, Moscow Address
“When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. ”