World Leadership Quotes

I'm a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I've always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.

The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.

The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

It is our manifest destiny to lead and rule all nations.

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

God has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world.

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

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

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 New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.

Gone is any mention of American exceptionalism. I happen to believe that twice, three times in the 20th century, the United States saved Western democracy, both World War - both World Wars and the Cold War.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

I do wish I ruled the world, I think it'd be a better place.

America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation.

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.

If I ruled the world Imagine that...

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

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

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

Destiny has laid upon our country the responsibility of the free world's leadership.

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.