New York, Jan.20: U.S. President Barack Obama told groups of campaign donors in New York on Thursday that he was responsible for restoring a “sense of America as the sole, indispensable power” in the world.

Making these comments at an exclusive 5,000-dollar per person fundraiser at a Manhattan restaurant that featured a predominantly Jewish crowd, Obama said that U.S. leadership in the international community had been on the decline when he took office in 2009, but that his foreign policy, including ending the war in Iraq, refocusing the war in Afghanistan and renewing U.S. commitment to international alliances – turned the dynamics around.

“What we were also able to do, I think, is to restore a sense of America as the sole, indispensable power, a country that, whether it’s responding to an earthquake or a tsunami, or it’s dealing with a dictator that is about to ruthlessly butcher his people, we aren’t out there alone,” ABC News quoted Obama, as saying.

He added: “We’re able to mobilize around a set of values and a set of principles, and ensure that the international rules of the road are followed,” alluding to the crisis with Iran over its clandestine nuclear program.

“When I came into office, Iran was united and the world was divided.  And now what we have is a united international community that is saying to Iran, you’ve got to change your ways,” Obama said.

Obama later told supporters at a separate event in the same restaurant that the election will be about preserving his global achievement so that “people everywhere continue to see America as the one indispensable nation in assuring that there’s an international order that thinks about everybody, and not just thinks in terms of raw power.