Robert Frost Quotes

Staggering poverty and crippling inequality at hole do not necessarily prevent countries from trying to project their power abroad.

China is a global actor without (yet) being a true global power.

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

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

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

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

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

For centuries, the interests of the state were put above those of the individual. We (Russia) were practically the last of the civilized peoples of the world to realize that the strength of the state lies in the well-being of its people.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

We need a strong state but we need a democratic one.

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?

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

When those who uphold the law are strong, the state is strong. When they are weak, the state is weak

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.

A people cannot be happy or prosperous or respected if the state to which they belong is not strong and respected …. It is the interest of the people that their state shall be powerful and respected.

Influence in the globalized world is increasingly determined by economic strength.

Britain's political voice depends on our role as a leading and influential member of the E.U. If we leave, we are of less value to our allies and of less concern to our enemies. We need the strongest voice we can get in the dangerous modern world.

I have to tell you, as your Secretary of State, I went to 112 countries, and when people hear those words, they hear America. So don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. We're not. Don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes. We do.

We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.