George Soros Quotes

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States. [This idea] happens to coincide with the prevailing opinion in the world. And I think that's rather shocking for Americans to hear.

That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.

My main concern is with the world order

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

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.

If I were remaking the United Nations there would only be one permanent representative—the United States because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.

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

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

If George W. Bush really has the courage of his convictions the United States very soon will either wind up dominating the United Nations (as it should) or rendering it impotent (which would probably be even better).

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

We had the clip of [Donald] Trump saying: I'm not president of the globe. I'm president of the United States.[Ronald] Reagan would have never said that. [Dwight] Eisenhower would have never said that, because he would have said, yes, I'm president of the United States, but it's in our interests to be securing a world order.

The US is the wrecking machine that is destroying everything. The world is hoping that China will somehow come to the rescue.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

…the only alternative to the communist World Empire is an American Empire, which will be, if not literally worldwide in formal boundaries, capable of exercising decisive world control.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.