Francis John McConnell Quotes

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

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

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.

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.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

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

America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation.

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

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

We are a global power, active and responsible on the world stage. This will never change.

Trump is the first post-World War II American president to view the burdens of world leadership as outweighing the benefits.

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, ‘the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out,’ and then to worry when America wants to sort them out.

Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

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

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.