Julia Gillard Quotes

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Americans do not recognize the effect of American power in the world. … People all over the world ask, “Why can’t Americans see how American power affects us?”

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

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

American leadership is essential.

The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

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

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.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

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

America must always lead on the world stage.

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.

I believe that if America does not lead, others will - others who do not share our interests and our values - and the world will grow darker, for our friends and for us.

There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.

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

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.

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

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

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

The greatest thing that we can do for the world is be America.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.