Rudy Giuliani Quotes

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

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.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

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

America has always viewed the entire world through one kind of eye-glasses--that of American interests.

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

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.

America is different. It irks and domineers. But it does not conquer. It tries to call the shots and bend the rules, but it does not go to war for land and glory.

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 whole of Britain’s international trading system, foreign policy and even Britain’s various conflicting political parties were maintained for one reason; and for one reason alone – that the money power of the world may rule the British people and through them they may rule mankind.

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

Americans do not recognize the effect of American power in the world. … People all over the world ask, “Why can’t Americans see how American power affects us?”

For the 30 years I have been involved with U. S. national security, our policy has been shaped by the assumption that we could shape other countries’ policies throughout the world. This has always been a bit of a myth.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

Under the George W. Bush Administration…, the United States was generally seen as having the capacity and resolve, to pursue its own agenda in complete disregard of other states’ preferences.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even seems to idolize him. Neither his cabinet appointees nor the civil servants in the Pentagon and the State Department feel the same way, however, so we don't know what this admiration will bring.