American Leadership Quotes:

Challenging American leadership is not at stake.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.russianembassy.org

topic: Challenges, Stakes, American Leadership

American leadership is essential.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

topic: Essentials, American Leadership

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Leadership Potential, Molding

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Civilization, Survival, Existence, American Leadership

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

- Marian Anderson

topic: Leadership, Understanding, Needs, Women Leadership, Best Leader

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

- Condoleezza Rice

source: Source: www.cnbc.com

topic: Country, People, United States, Difficult Problems, American Leadership

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, Bad Taste, American Leadership

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Business, Leadership Development, Leadership Style

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Strong, Years, Anchors, American Leadership

This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

- Barack Obama

topic: Fighting, Safe Haven, People, Islamic State, Degrade

I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people are supportive, of course, and some people are dismayed by it. I think one thing that draws most people together - maybe 80 percent of the people - is a very strong view of American leadership and the American alliance.

- Richard Glover

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Strong, Thinking, Australia, American Leadership, Dismayed

America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

- Mark Shields

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: America, Borders, Firsts, American Values, Exceptionalism

In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

- Barack Obama

source: Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

topic: Leadership, Military, War, Isil, Counter Terrorism

Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

- Tariq Ramadan

source: "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

topic: Voice, America, Issues, Solitary Confinement, Domestic Policy

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama defends Libya policy". "The World Today with Eleanor Hall", www.abc.net.au. March 29, 2011.

topic: Leadership, Matter, Burden, American Leadership

America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

- Ted Cruz

topic: Thinking, Numbers, America, American Leadership

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president,

- John Boehner

topic: War, America, President, American Leadership

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

- Monica Crowley

topic: Wise, Evil, World, American Leadership, Unspeakable

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

- Rich Lowry

source: FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Apr 05, 2011

topic: Way, Allies, Sometimes, American Leadership

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Dream, Jobs, Growth, Clean Energy, American Leadership

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

- Susan Rice

topic: Thinking, Periods, Judged, American Leadership

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

- Barack Obama

source: President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

topic: Leadership, Destiny, Hands, Corners Of The World, American Leadership

President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

- John O. Brennan

topic: Play, Priorities, President, American Leadership

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

- Pete Domenici

topic: Oil, Use, Energy, Ingenuity, American Leadership

As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

- John Bolton

topic: Writing, Years, Stressed, Framers, American Leadership

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Progress, Middle East, Remember, American Leadership

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

- Mitt Romney

source: "Face the Nation" with Jan Crawford, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012.

topic: Believe, Benefits, World, American Leadership

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

- Jeffrey Sachs

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, Leader, Roles, American Leadership

When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.

- Rachel Maddow

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Running, Country, Russia, Dissidents, American Leadership

Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: genius.com

topic: Home, Needs, Helping, American Leadership, Nation Building

The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America - the greatest nation on Earth - just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins - look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

- Mike Pence

source: "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate". www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Bullying, Strong, Leader, Missile Defense, Dictating

When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And it's odd because the American leadership, again in both parties, tends to take comfort in the idea that bin Laden is just an inspirational symbol now.

- Michael Scheuer

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Party, Cutting, Thinking, American Leadership

At a time of change and challenge at home and abroad, these investments will enhance the security of Americans, assure the future American leadership, and help build the foundations of peace, stability, and prosperity in the years ahead.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Home, Years, Challenges, American Leadership

Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe in American leadership or America winning - he is wrong. America can win again and we will win again.

- Ted Cruz

source: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

topic: Believe, Winning, America, We Will Win, American Leadership

Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Believe, Indiana, Size, American Leadership

When Iran continues to get away with bad behavior, what do our allies who are Iran's enemies think about us? It is why we cannot stand by while Russia allies itself with Iran. You can't outsource American leadership to Russia. Russia isn't on our side. They're on their side and Iran's side.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 6, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Russia, Iran, Bad Behavior, American Leadership