Madeleine Albright Quotes

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

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

America is different. It irks and domineers. But it does not conquer. It tries to call the shots and bend the rules, but it does not go to war for land and glory.

Are we Uncle Sam or Uncle Sucker?

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.

America being a force is a lot more than building up the Defense Department.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

Multilateralism is regarded as somehow un-American, a trick by which foreigners seek to sap the strength and authority of the United States.

America has saved the world.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

There is not a man here [in Congress] who does not feel four hundred percent bigger in 1900—bigger intellectually, bigger, hopefully, bigger patriotically that he as a citizen of a country that has become a world power.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

America must always lead on the world stage.

The United States is a nation different from all others. We are now powerful if we choose to exert our strength.

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.