Bashir Assad Quotes

It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Throughout history states have also used force to reform, restructure, or rebuild the domestic institutions of other countries

Who does he think the fucking superpower is?

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

You have acquired so enormous a mass of territory that it will be years before you can settle it or control it, or make it capable of defense or make it amenable to the acts of your administration

Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force.

Great Powers must recognize that effective nation building requires not only the heart of the humanitarian but also the hubris of an imperialist.

America is different. It irks and domineers. But it does not conquer. It tries to call the shots and bend the rules, but it does not go to war for land and glory.

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?

No nation has ever ridden to superpower status except on a tide of war and that includes the United States.

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 main reason western culture has been dominant is because Europeans have controlled political, economic and social power including educational policy for the last several centuries.

There is not perhaps on this globe a single foot of ground which has not been conquered by the sword at some time or other, and where the people occupying it have not maintained themselves on it by force. If the Negroes were stronger than the Europeans, Europe would be partitioned by the Negroes and not Africa by the Europeans. The 'right' claimed by people who bestow on themselves the title of 'civilized' to conquer other peoples, whom it pleases them to call 'uncivilized,' is altogether ridiculous, or rather, this right is nothing other than force.

The ignorant classes had been taught to believe that certain words such as "sovereignty," "protection," and so forth had peculiar meanings disastrous to their welfare and significant of future political domination, like that from which they had been recently freed.

The big wars of the 20th Century, like the two World Wars, Korea and Vietnam, were all wars about elite control.

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

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

It is evident to every unbiased mind that Korea must be and will be Russian..