Hillary Clinton Quotes

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

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.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad …. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being…. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

Public Diplomacy – the open exchange of ideas and information – is an inherent characteristic of democratic societies. Its global mission is central to … foreign policy. And it remains indispensable to … national interests, ideals and leadership role in the world.

American interests dictate that we teach other peoples to govern themselves.

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

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.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

The United States, under President Trump, is abdicating an important moral obligation to all democracies by seeming to shrug off the most egregious of human rights violations from both our allies and our enemies.

The question before the United States is whether the magnitude of its power will eclipse the light by which it was founded, or whether it will use its power to serve greater light. Does it seek mastery to dominate or mastery to serve?

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

Are we going to lead the world with strength and in accordance with our values? That's what I intend to do.

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.

The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

This is regrettable indeed for a nation that aspires to teach democracy to other nations, because, as Burke said: "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.