Quotes About the Untied States in Global Affairs?

Question by sarahjamess: Quotes about the Untied States in Global Affairs?
I’m doing a social studies project on the U.S role in a changing world and I need quotes for What is the past/ currnet/ future role of the U.S. in global affairs. Anybody willing to share?

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Answer by AllTheQuotes.com
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
– Abraham Lincoln

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.
– Barack Obama
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
– Mark Twain

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
– Barack Obama
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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We’re Americans. We’re Americans, and we’ll never surrender. They will.
– John McCain

I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture. And I’m gonna make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world.
– Barack Obama
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I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time.
– Barack Obama
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
– Barack Obama
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
– Ronald Reagan

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
– Barack Obama
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
– Mark Twain

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
– Ronald Reagan

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
– Abraham Lincoln

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
– Ronald Reagan

President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom, and his willingness to act on that belief, helped end the Cold War and usher in a new and brighter phase of history.
– Colin Powell

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
– Joe Biden

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
– Colin Powell

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
– Colin Powell

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.
– Colin Powell

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
– Barack Obama
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This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.
– Sarah Palin

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
– Ronald Reagan

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.
– Mark Twain

We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. … We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.
– Sarah Palin

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
– Barack Obama
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What I was clearly talking about is that I am proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process. I mean, everyone has said what I said, in that we haven’t seen these record numbers of turnouts, people who are paying attention, going to rallies, watching debates.
– Michelle Obama

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
– Barack