Tom Ford Quotes

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

The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.

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

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

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.

Making the case for sustained U. S. [world] leadership is not always easy. Unilateralism or isolationism often make for better sound bites.

It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.

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

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

America has saved the world.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.

The world wants America to lead. It does not want America to impose or dictate.

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

America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation.

We need to plus-up the budget of the State Department, increase the amount of aid we give, and help the world through this difficult moment. That is the price of leadership.