Fyodor Lukyanov Quotes

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.

Europe will be the most important economic power in the world.

The definition of superpower cannot mean only military might anymore.

From the end of WWI to today, American economic might would be the decisive factor in the shaping of the world order.

To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

In the international world, when General Electric walks into the room, the Sixth Fleet walks in behind them.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

The more money we have to throw around the better off we're going to be. I think this country doesn't understand its power around the world economically—its ability to buy friends.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

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

If we do not have the economic resources to be a leader, it’s going to affect our foreign policy.

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

A superpower does not have to be the bully on the block.

Soft power … cannot accomplish much in the absence of a willingness to use hard power.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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.

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.