Andrew Scobell Quotes

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.

A superpower does not have to be the bully on the block.

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”.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

There is a growing recognition about China as a power in the ascent, and there is a question out there about what China will do with their new ascension.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

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

The USSR has emerged from the war in the role of one of most authoritative powers in world. It is now impossible to solve serious questions of international relations without participation of USSR.

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

To become a successful hegemon, it helps to be both very rich and very big.

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

Being a great power is very expensive.

Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power

Staggering poverty and crippling inequality at hole do not necessarily prevent countries from trying to project their power abroad.

There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There’s the United States and there’s Moody’s Bond Rating Service. The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs and Moody’s can destroy you by downgrading your bonds. And believe me, it’s not clear sometimes who’s the more powerful.

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

Russia is living proof that hard power is brittle without the other dimensions of great-power status.

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political career, there has been a sense of retreat from the world stage because of what happened in the Iraq War.