Martin Jacques Quotes

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

America rules the world - by force.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

Decolonisation seems to have dented little the sense of superiority that since 1945 has made American leaders in particular consistently underestimate the intensity of nationalist feeling in Asia and Africa.

The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.

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.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

If I were remaking the United Nations there would only be one permanent representative—the United States because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.

The so-called world order is a criminal world order led by America, whom we call upon Allah to humiliate.

Whereas the British were generally quite open about the fact that they were running an empire, few Americans politicians today would use the “e” word as anything other than a term of abuse.

The World Doesn’t Want to Be American

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

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

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?

We live in the age of the American empire.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs (surface-to- air missiles). They know we own their country. We own their airspace…We dictate the way they live and talk. And that’s what’s great about America right now. It’s a good thing, especially when there’s a lot of oil out there we need.

Political and security realities have reduced the scope of American unilateralism.

England’s drama is to be forced to choose between the remains of her Empire at the price of American hegemony and a loyal commitment to the continent.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.