Political Quotes

“it is in our interest to engage in Kosovo. It is in our interest because the reason we enjoy world peace and domestic prosperity is that we gain from worldwide peace and prosperity more than any other nation in the world today. If there were war and depression in Europe we would pay the higher price. We are the leader of this free world because we have defined ourselves as a principled nation; because we believe in democracy and free enterprise and freedom of expression and respect for human rights. And because we do more than just believe in it and talk about it. We are willing to stand up for those principles. One might say we do not belong in the Balkans, that we have nothing to do with the Balkans. To say that, though, we would have to conveniently ignore the fact that two world wars were started in the Balkans, but we cannot ignore it because the reason Europe is stable today is that we invested after World War II to make sure that it would not come apart; that it would not be taken over by fascists. We did that through the Marshall Plan. We did it through investing in the European powers, and we did it by establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. We established NATO, have invested in it sustained it, and must lead it. The nations of Europe depend upon the strength of our leadership.…”