Richard Armitage Quotes

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.

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

Europe is perhaps the first example in history of a non-dominant world power.

Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.

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

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

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

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.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

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

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

A big country has to be careful. It's so easy for a big country to give offense.

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

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

A superpower does not have to be the bully on the block.

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

History teaches that the rise of new great powers often triggers major global conflict.

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.