American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.