Gary Ackerman Quotes

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

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

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

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

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

What really matters for great powers is power—national economic and military strength—and that speaks loudly and clearly for itself.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

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.

One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.

Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.

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

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

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Turkey wants to see Bashar al-Assad go and wants to kind of expand its sphere of influence into Turkey so its Ottoman glory or Ottoman past are once again project into the Syrian provinces. That's kind of what Turkey's vision is.

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

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.

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

Europe is perhaps the first example in history of a non-dominant world power.

The prestige of a nation is its reputation for power.

A nation is a superpower not just because of its military strength.

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