Oliver Stone Quotes

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

America must always be the world's paramount military power

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Whereas the British were generally quite open about the fact that they were running an empire, few Americans politicians today would use the “e” word as anything other than a term of abuse.

We live in the age of the American empire.

Who does he think the fucking superpower is?

There is no substitute - none - for American power.

The United States emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented absolute and relative power. It was truly first among unequals.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people.

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

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

The United States considers itself a model for the world, imposing its way of living and thinking on other nations.

The best American internationalists reject the idea that their nation holds a global copyright that gives it a mandate to churn out replicas dotting the world.

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?

America had one idea attached to its brand. We presented ourselves as the world's last superpower. And that was the world's worst branding idea.

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?”

Americans like to think of their country as the most powerful in the world, and so it has been for three-quarters of a century. But being the most powerful is a far cry from being omnipotent.

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

Britain’s governments in the 1920s again and again found themselves confronting the painful fact that the United States was a power unlike any other. It had emerged, quite suddenly, as a novel kind of ‘super-state’, exercising a veto over the financial and security concerns of the other major states of the world”.

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