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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.