Jennifer Egan Quotes

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

The U.S. efforts to impose its policies on others are expanding as a threat to all.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the next threat to the United States would be.

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy. Across the political spectrum, left or right, most Americans still cling to whatever assumptions they held during our long journey through the Cold War.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

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

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

The Americans want to replace the French in Indo China. They want to replace us in Egypt. They want to run the world.

Americans do not recognize the effect of American power in the world. … People all over the world ask, “Why can’t Americans see how American power affects us?”

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

We don't believe that Russia is a direct threat to Norway, but we believe that Russia has become more unpredictable in its policies.

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.