Robert Byrd Quotes

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 power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

Who does he think the fucking superpower is?

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Diplomacy without military capability is nothing more than prayer.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

Europe is perhaps the first example in history of a non-dominant world power.

Hegemony is the best way for any state to guarantee its own survival.

A superpower, however, is only as good as the forces through which it exercises that power.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

Never before has the gap between American power and its legitimacy been so great.

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

We have to really get used to the fact that there is more than one center in the world politics, that the unipolar world never succeeded, that there are more growing, emerging, economic, financial powers…

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

It is difficult for an American of today to realize that less than twenty-five years ago the United States was not taken seriously as a world power.

We speak of the United States as a “benign hegemony”.

There is no substitute - none - for American power.

The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.