Roger Cohen Quotes & Sayings

Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom. — Roger Cohen

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. — Roger Cohen

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world. — Roger Cohen

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation. — Roger Cohen

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through. — Roger Cohen