Nelson Mandela Quotes

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

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?

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.

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

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

In the United Nations, the United States can almost always get its way…. The United States has the ability to make the United Nations work or not work---if it cares enough.

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big powers who need the United States for their protection. It is all the others.

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.

There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

It's America calling the shots in everything

[Vladimir] Putin took a look at them [Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama] and said, I can push these guys around the world. These are children compared to me. Donald Trump is not a child.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.