Bernard Levin Quotes

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 doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

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

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

The whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

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.

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.

The great question of the 20th century is whether the Anglo-Saxon of the Slav is to impress his civilization upon the world.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

The world order and American actions in the world have deep wiring.

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

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

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk about the world, carve up the countries, shape borders. For Putin, treaties, alliances, Nato, the EU are stumbling blocks.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

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.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

For the world to supersede the United States and for the United States to become subservient to the world, which is the United Nations in practical application, just rubs people the wrong way. Because the United Nations is nothing but a fleece organization, fleecing our money, under the guise that we owe it because we've committed so many injustices and transgressions.