John Mahoney Quotes

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

The person who serves as president of the United States is the de facto leader of the free world.

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

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.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

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

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.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Isn’t it clear that the British government has no policy of our own in Iraq and that we are totally dependent on the policy of the United States?

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

Europe’s slow political decline has been disguised for decades by American power.

Tony Blair is one of the most significant world leaders of the modern era. He has a remarkable story to tell. His tenure as prime minister was marked by close relationships with Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, and he enjoys a profile in this country that is rare among foreign leaders.

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political career, there has been a sense of retreat from the world stage because of what happened in the Iraq War.

Donald Trump is the head of a global power.

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

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.

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.

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

It is the President alone who must make the major decisions of our foreign policy.

The policy of the United States in the Spanish war and since has given it a position of influence among the nations that it never had before.

If we do not have the economic resources to be a leader, it’s going to affect our foreign policy.

A superpower does not have to be the bully on the block.