We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us, draw this line so that New York will never become New Mecca.

Bolivia cannot continue revolving around a tyrant.

No country that pursues an independent course of development shall be allowed to prevail as a dangerous example to other nations.

We will not allow Syria to become a source of harassment for neighboring countries.

We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom—and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair

[But] we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.

The Soviet Government and the Soviet people should not lend themselves to co-operating in the conversion into a concentration camp of part of a large neighbouring country against the will of its inhabitants.

[T]he United States could not simply turn itself into another Finland.

America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. And we will not allow a regime that chants "Death to America" to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth.

Changing borders by force is not acceptable.

We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas.

[Brazil will no longer vote with] Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, countries that have no appreciation for freedom.

I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations, in the defense of freedom and justice, we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.

And you've got a lot of people saying let's not topple the dictatorship in Venezuela even though it threatened the US and other countries and is collapsing and the people are begging don't do it and I tend not to want regime change where we overthrow some ally like Egypt and put someone like ISIS or Al Qaeda in, or do we stand by and let an thousand plus people starve and cause a collapse into the US border which the UN is helping to foment? That's a real territorial threat. That's a real national emergency. That's first year geopolitics for you here is where I may be right. I may not want intervention in Venezuela.