When I look at the murder, rape and starvation to which the people of Darfur are being subjected, I fear that we have not got far beyond lip service. The lesson here is that high-sounding doctrines like the responsibility to protect will remain pure rhetoric unless and until those with the power to intervene effectively — by exerting political, economic or, in the last resort, military muscle — are prepared to take the lead.

Truman Library address (2006)