George Soros on sovereignty

The principle of sovereignty needs to be reconsidered.  Sovereignty belongs to the people; the people are supposed to delegate it to the government through the electoral process.  But not all governments are democratically elected and even democratic governments may abuse the authority thus entrusted to them.  If the abuses of power are severe enough and the people are deprived of opportunities to correct them, outside interference is justified.  International intervention is often the only lifeline available to the oppressed.

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The rulers of a sovereign state have a responsibility to protect the citizens.  When they fail to do so, the responsibility should be transferred to the international community.  That principle out to guide the international community in its policies.

~ George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy, "Sovereignty and Intervention," pp. 102-104

Carroll Quigley on the globalism movement

There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act.  In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.  I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960’s to examine its papers and secret records. 

I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and many of its instruments.  I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a European power and must be allied, or even federated, with the United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.

~ Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

~ Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995