Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

The departure of the fleet was momentous. It drove me to prayer. I could see in it America's assertion of her right to control the Pacific in the interest of civilization and humanity.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power..

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.

I believe Bengal is a part of India.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

I think the Chinese do have visions of being a great power. And I think it's legitimate. And I don't see that that's a danger to us.

Indeed, often because of the size and weight in the world of our neighbor, we in Canada often define ourselves in contrast to American positions on things like Cuba, the Vietnam War and nuclear disarmament. Historically, Canada has not always been aligned with the United States. It doesn't necessarily serve anyone's interests - Canadian or American - to be seen as an extension of the United States.

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.