Boots Riley Quotes

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

This deep-rooted view [of the American government] is based on the view that the West not only seeks to continue geopolitical expansion in its classical form but also wants to make everyone do things it's way, by persiusion and example when possible, and by force when necessary.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

It is the evident destiny of the British and Americans, and of course the Russians to rule the world.

... a renunciation of our further intention to maintain the Monroe Doctrine and would proclaim that we had joined the horde of European greed in attempting to absorb as many of the weaker powers on earth as possible.

So long as I am Chancellor we shall not pursue a colonial policy.

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

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.

It looks like the so-called "winners" of the Cold War are determined to have it all, and reshape the world into a place that could better serve their interests alone.

In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

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.

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

the avowed pretension of the United States, to put themselves at the head of the confederacy of all the Americas, and to sway that confederacy against Europe (Great Britain included), is not a pretension identified with our interests, or one that we can countenance or tolerate. It is, however, a pretension which there is no use in contesting in the abstract; but we must not say anything that seems to admit this principle.

…the only alternative to the communist World Empire is an American Empire, which will be, if not literally worldwide in formal boundaries, capable of exercising decisive world control.

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 United States] dreams of world domination, resolves to control the resources of other nations, wants to shape the world according to its ideas, and seeks to impose its values and ideology on others by force.

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?

The United States is now, as the defunct Soviet Union was decades ago, the subversive agent of a world revolution.

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

The events of 11 September will be remembered as the end of the US empire. This is because all empires collapse when they pursue the arrogance of power.