Montesquieu Quotes

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

There will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, balances of power ...

The United States is the last remaining sovereign state.

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?

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard? Or is it not a standard perpetually varying, as civilization advances, and as new nations spring up, and take their place among established political communities?

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.

This concord should be as profound as our empires are great, for we know that no other state will ever appear to rival our empires.

In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential.

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

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

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

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

In the past, Germany could rely on the French, the British and, especially, the Americans, to assert our interests in the world. We have always criticized the U.S. for being the global police, and it was often appropriate to do so. But we are now seeing what happens when the U.S. pulls back. If the U.S. leaves the room, other powers immediately walk in. In Syria, it's Russia and Iran. In trade policy, it's China. These examples show that, ultimately, we are no longer achieving either - neither the dissemination of our European values nor the advancement of our interests.

In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading bloc but a political entity. Do we realise that our nation states, taken individually, would find it far more difficult to assert their existence and their identity on the world stage.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.