Fredric Jameson Quotes

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

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

The World Doesn’t Want to Be American

We live in the age of the American empire.

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

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

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

Geo-economics may replace geo-politics as the driving force in international relations.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

People the world over now see democracy promotion as a dishonest, dangerous cover for the protection of U. S. power and influence.

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history.

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 were quite naïve about the use of American power.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.