Sanjaya Baru Quotes

America rules the world - by force.

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

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

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

We live in the age of the American empire.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

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.

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.

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.

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?

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

The United States although a superpower was never an empire..

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

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.

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.

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.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

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