Rosecrans Baldwin Quotes

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.

Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything.

There is not a man here [in Congress] who does not feel four hundred percent bigger in 1900—bigger intellectually, bigger, hopefully, bigger patriotically that he as a citizen of a country that has become a world power.

The United States considers itself a model for the world, imposing its way of living and thinking on other nations.

We must save America from the missionary idea that you must get the whole world on to the American way of life. This is really a big world danger.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans — convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The American conception that liberty’s task was to oppose concentrated power, produced a sense that the country had a mission to reshape the world in form much like its own, and enlarged a conviction that America was God’s country, with an exceptional and newly chosen people.

Americans like to think of their country as the most powerful in the world, and so it has been for three-quarters of a century. But being the most powerful is a far cry from being omnipotent.

American elites, singularly undamaged and actually empowered by the most destructive war in history, idealized their exceptional experience — of individual self-seekers achieving more or less continuous expansion under relatively thin traditional constraints — into a model of universal development

Barack Obama wants to change America. Barack Obama wants America to be more like the rest of the world. We don't want to be like the rest of the world. We want to be the United States of America.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

That's the problem with the United States. It believes it can control everybody's behavior.

I don't want to be another country. I want to be the United States of America, the greatest country in the world.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.