Hillary Clinton Quotes

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

Public diplomacy, practiced in harmony with traditional diplomacy, will enable us to advance our interest, to protect our security, and to continue to provide the moral basis for our leadership in the world.

We are world leaders, and we need to act like it.

As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.