Darryl Glenn Quotes

At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

If the international community must act, then America must lead.

America must always lead on the world stage.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

As the United States shapes and carries out its policies toward Muslim countries, it should do so with Turkey at its side.

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.

The question of when you intervene is probably the toughest question of American foreign policy.

It’s not America’s job to fix the Middle East. Our job is to look after our own interests..

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

I believe that if America does not lead, others will - others who do not share our interests and our values - and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.

American leadership is essential.

The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.