Quotations

The United States of America has not the option as to whether it will or it will not play a great part in the world. It must play a great part. All that it can decide is whether it will play that part well or badly.
—Theodore Roosevelt, in The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

It is a complex fate to be an American.
—Henry James

We are all Americans.
—Jean-Marie Colombani, in Le Monde