BEDFORD, N.H. — Republican Rudy Giuliani said Monday that the reputation of the United States has suffered globally not so much because of arrogant actions but for lack of salesmanship about benefits of democracy. If he is elected president, he said, he would seek ambassadors who would work hard to sell U.S. strengths to foreigners.
“These are beautiful things, almost like gifts given to us by God, the wonderful resources of our country, the great system that our framers created that was ingenious,” Giuliani said at a “Politics and Eggs” breakfast. He added: ‘We’ve got to have a State Department that gets that, that understands that. We are a country of good motives, of good people, of great accomplishments. We don’t want to force ’em on anybody in the world; we’d like to share it with them. That’s what diplomacy is about.” The Associated Press
