Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

In the past, Germany could rely on the French, the British and, especially, the Americans, to assert our interests in the world. We have always criticized the U.S. for being the global police, and it was often appropriate to do so. But we are now seeing what happens when the U.S. pulls back. If the U.S. leaves the room, other powers immediately walk in. In Syria, it's Russia and Iran. In trade policy, it's China. These examples show that, ultimately, we are no longer achieving either - neither the dissemination of our European values nor the advancement of our interests.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

If I were remaking the United Nations there would only be one permanent representative—the United States because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.

It is the evident destiny of the British and Americans, and of course the Russians to rule the world.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.

No one, no single center, can today command the world. No single group of countries can do it. Under the current U.S. president, I don't think we can fundamentally change the situation as it is developing now. It is dangerous. The world is experiencing a period of growing global disarray.

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated by a sense that the alternatives involve more violence, more repression, more hardship.

In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.

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

…the only alternative to the communist World Empire is an American Empire, which will be, if not literally worldwide in formal boundaries, capable of exercising decisive world control.

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.

Although no one likes a hegemon, America will be a better hegemon than others would be.

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.