Priti Patel Quotes

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

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.

America must always lead on the world stage.

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

I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work.

China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

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

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

We are the only country that can provide world leadership, but we have to have the support of the American people to do it.

The United States should serve as a weight, not the weight on the scale of foreign affairs.

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.

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.

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

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

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.

We have long depended on an America which has got a clear sense of its stakes in the world and how much it depends on the world as well as how much the world and its allies and friends depend on the United States of America, and we hope this will continue.

We are not quitters. Britain has always gone out there; we have probably been more influential than any other country in shaping our world and the way it has thought about itself, the way we interact as nations.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.