Angela Merkel Quotes

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

The world needs a strong America.

President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Daily, at this time, we shall speak to you about America and the war. The news may be good or bad. We shall tell you the truth.

[Czechoslovakia is] ... the godchild of the great and glorious Republic of the United States.

The government should not present the anomaly which it now presents—a government the freest, perhaps the most democratic in the world with reference to local and domestic matters in which you rule yourselves as fully as any people in the world, while in your foreign affairs, your relations with other countries, whether peaceful or warlike, commercial, financial, or otherwise, you may have no more voice than the people of Japan.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

… a propositional nation is obliged to open its borders to strangers “yearning to breathe free,” but it is also justified in engaging in endless crusades to impose its propositions on the rest of the world

The power of example is America’s greatest power in the world.

America is a republic gradually and surely becoming the supreme moral factor in the world’s progress and the accepted arbiter of the World’s disputes.

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.