Thomas Friedman Quotes

Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

A nation is a superpower not just because of its military strength.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

What really matters for great powers is power—national economic and military strength—and that speaks loudly and clearly for itself.

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

It is difficult for an American of today to realize that less than twenty-five years ago the United States was not taken seriously as a world power.

The United States is a nation different from all others. We are now powerful if we choose to exert our strength.

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

The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

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

Power alone is respected and ... in order to gain peace, the United States has no alternative but to wield it

Any country that has a nuclear bomb is a super power.

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

If I were remaking the United Nations there would only be one permanent representative—the United States because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.

More commonly, states choose to ally themselves with the United States out of a desire for U.S. protection from a regional threat. The United States has long be an attractive ally against intimidating neighbors: it is strong enough to shift a regional balance of power, and it generally does so without conquering its allies in the process.