Political Quotes

“It's time for the United States as a Nation to change its direction, to begin to see ourselves as a Nation among nations, not a Nation above nations, to begin to set aside war as an instrument of policy, to be sensitive to the power that we have so that we're not attempting to use our force in a way that would punish someone militarily who doesn't agree with us. The underlying premise that my friends here have of nonproliferation is something I agree with, but where we depart from agreement is where we're focusing on nonproliferation among only a few countries. I will say it again: we need a new direction in America. It's a direction where we stand for peace, not the kind of peace which is some airy-fairy notion, and not just looking at peace as the absence of war, but peace as an active presence and the capacity we have to pursue the science of human relations, and to be able to use diplomacy to get to a place where we all feel secure. But we don't have that today. So what we do is we try to find our security through straitjacketing other nations with sanctions that inevitably are bound to fail and which inevitably turn the people of the countries who we're sanctioning against us and help to strengthen the hands of the regime that's being sanctioned. We need to, as a Nation, take a stand for nuclear abolition once and for all. We need to, as a Nation, get rid of this idea that war is acceptable.…”