Richard Nixon Quotes

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

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

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

America must always be the world's paramount military power

There is a perception across the Middle East that America is weakened. I believe the perception is wrong. The United States remains the world's mightiest military, economic and diplomatic power by far, with reach and abilities beyond rival.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

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

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Mere population size has been no indicator of economic or military clout.

In the long run the security of the United States is protected by economic strength. In the short run, military strength, in the long run economic.

The definition of superpower cannot mean only military might anymore.

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

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.

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

If our economy is strong, that means the military will be strong. If our economy is weak, that weakens our military.

Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy.

Americans like to think of their country as the most powerful in the world, and so it has been for three-quarters of a century. But being the most powerful is a far cry from being omnipotent.

Britain’s governments in the 1920s again and again found themselves confronting the painful fact that the United States was a power unlike any other. It had emerged, quite suddenly, as a novel kind of ‘super-state’, exercising a veto over the financial and security concerns of the other major states of the world”.