Lydia M. Child Quotes

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

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.

I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.

I think that the United States is an excellent example for the rest of the world.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

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

A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

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

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride.

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

Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

America has saved the world.

Public diplomacy, practiced in harmony with traditional diplomacy, will enable us to advance our interest, to protect our security, and to continue to provide the moral basis for our leadership in the world.

The United States is as weak as the Soviet Union. If enough pressure is applied to them, they will pull out of the Middle East.

It is difficult for an American of today to realize that less than twenty-five years ago the United States was not taken seriously as a world power.

America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation.

U. S. [world] leadership has endured, in part because American principles are embedded in the international economic framework.