11.   On the global stage, the United States will reject isolationism, maintain a strong military and continue the tradition of world leadership.

12.   Our security still depends on our continued world leadership for peace and freedom and democracy.

13.   Rallying other nations around a sanctions program is a visible way of claiming world leadership.

14.   Therefore, let us stop kidding ourselves about our world leadership.

15.   To put world leadership in the hands of the Texas governor would be to put a heavy load in a surprisingly fragile vessel.

16.   Unless we halt the slide, the United States risks losing its position of world financial leadership.

17.   With geographic chops like these, Bush seemed to be asking voters, how could anyone doubt my capacity for world leadership?

18.   Will people rally to bring the troops home, or will they regard the losses as the heroic price of world leadership?

19.   World leadership requires not only decisiveness but restraint as well.

20.   Yet many resist the notion that there should be any costs attached to world leadership.