Bait and Switch - Classic Quotes George W. Bush with Al Gore from 10/112000 Debate
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GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH: If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we've got to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in relationship to the rest of the world than at any time in history, that I know about anyway, that there is some resentment of U.S. power. So I think that the idea of humility is an important one.
GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it's got to be. We can help. And maybe it's just our difference in government, the way we view government. I mean I want to empower people. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Like it or not, we are now...the United States is now the natural leader of the world. All of the other countries are looking to us. Now just because we cannot be involved everywhere, and shouldn't be, doesn't mean that we should shy away from going in anywhere. And we have a fundamental choice to make. Are we going to step up to the plate as a nation, the way we did after World War II, the way that generation of heroes said, okay, the United States is going to be the leader -- and the world benefited tremendously from the courage that they showed in those post-war years.
Bush won on a foreign policy platform completely different to the one he actually administered.
This is what Trudy Rubin had to say about the her observations of what the two candidates where saying during the debate:
TRUDY RUBIN: I was really surprised that the differences between the two men didn't come out more strongly. In fact, given that Governor Bush's probable future national security advisor Condolezza Rice, if he's elected, has said that we should not be 911 for the world, I was surprised that the Governor agreed with practically all of the interventions that were listed for him by the moderator. And the only one he didn't, Haiti, was not really nation building as a domestic intervention to keep refugees off of our shores. So it's still not clear to me what the Governor's principle is for intervention, and I thought that Vice President Gore also muddied his thesis, and in a sense, didn't sound- that0 different from Governor Bush.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in relationship to the rest of the world than at any time in history, that I know about anyway, that there is some resentment of U.S. power. So I think that the idea of humility is an important one.
GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it's got to be. We can help. And maybe it's just our difference in government, the way we view government. I mean I want to empower people. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Like it or not, we are now...the United States is now the natural leader of the world. All of the other countries are looking to us. Now just because we cannot be involved everywhere, and shouldn't be, doesn't mean that we should shy away from going in anywhere. And we have a fundamental choice to make. Are we going to step up to the plate as a nation, the way we did after World War II, the way that generation of heroes said, okay, the United States is going to be the leader -- and the world benefited tremendously from the courage that they showed in those post-war years.
Bush won on a foreign policy platform completely different to the one he actually administered.
This is what Trudy Rubin had to say about the her observations of what the two candidates where saying during the debate:
TRUDY RUBIN: I was really surprised that the differences between the two men didn't come out more strongly. In fact, given that Governor Bush's probable future national security advisor Condolezza Rice, if he's elected, has said that we should not be 911 for the world, I was surprised that the Governor agreed with practically all of the interventions that were listed for him by the moderator. And the only one he didn't, Haiti, was not really nation building as a domestic intervention to keep refugees off of our shores. So it's still not clear to me what the Governor's principle is for intervention, and I thought that Vice President Gore also muddied his thesis, and in a sense, didn't sound- that0 different from Governor Bush.
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Now contrast this with what one of our founding fathers said about what America's Foreign Policy should be:
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless, and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights; she has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own; she has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when the conflict has been for principles to which she clings as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. Where ever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be her heart, her benediction and her prayer be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence; she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force…She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit…
It appears that all the signs were there, the writing was already on the wall foreshadowing the tragedy that our nation would befall for arrogantly going where our forefathers warned us not to go.
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