Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

I don't mind being at their side, with respect to the Ukraine. But why should we always be out front? How many times can we be out in front on these issues?

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

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 rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

America’s power to intervene effectively overseas depends on its power to persuade and not merely coerce. The power to persuade depends on a willingness to be persuaded. And that willingness depends, ultimately, on America’s willingness to entertain the prospect that it is wrong.

The bloke who ends up sitting in the White House partially controls what we [the British] get up to.

Nations are what their deeds are.

America must always lead on the world stage.

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

We are a global power, active and responsible on the world stage. This will never change.