Kim Il-sung Quotes

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

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

When two giants meet with each other, when there is too little room for them on the world's surface, they try to measure their strength in order to decide by war the debatable question of hegemony.

The basic reason Russia has not attacked us is that we can outproduce her.

It is at least inconsistent to declare that there can be no doubt as to the defensive nature of American preparations, while seizing upon every similar step by the Soviet Union as incontrovertible evidence of its insatiable imperialism.

The US became arrogant because of what it owns of weapons and technology. For that, it handles the world as it pleases, and changes the ideologies of people, their habits and ethics in order to spread Western culture at the expense of Islam.

The Americans want to replace the French in Indo China. They want to replace us in Egypt. They want to run the world.

There are at the present time two great nations in the world— I allude to the Russians and the Americans— All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding—along a path to which no limit can be perceived.

This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

In the history of warfare, it has generally been the case that military superiority lies with the wealthiest states and those with the most developed administrations.

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

It’s finished. Russia wants world conquest.

Endorsing Ronald Reagan in 1980, Kissinger threw in with America's new militarists, who would jump-start a revived Cold War and drive to retake the Third World.

After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'

One Japanese soldier is worth ten Chinese.

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

The Russians saw the Marshall Plan as inimical; to their strategic interest in Europe if it worked. They galvanized all the communist parties in the world to oppose it.

I must confess to the most profound distrust of Russia. I have no belief whatever in her ability to maintain an effective offensive, even if she wanted to.

No criticism should be allowed to obscure the truth either at home or abroad that today America is the strongest nation militarily, economically, ideologically in the world.

I am on the anti-imperialist left. The Stalinist left? I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejoratives loaded around it; … If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe.