Angus Maddison Quotes

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.

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

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

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

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

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.

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.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

Modern power depends on money and guns. And we have the most of both.

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

The more money we have to throw around the better off we're going to be. I think this country doesn't understand its power around the world economically—its ability to buy friends.

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

No criticism should be allowed to obscure the truth either at home or abroad that today America is the strongest nation militarily, economically, ideologically in the world.

When your country is number one, others watch and emulate you. You do not study and emulate others.

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?”

There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There’s the United States and there’s Moody’s Bond Rating Service. The United States can destroy you by dropping bombs and Moody’s can destroy you by downgrading your bonds. And believe me, it’s not clear sometimes who’s the more powerful.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

U.S. power flows from our unmatched military might, yes. But in a deeper way, it's a product of the dominance of the U.S. economy.

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

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!

The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Hegemony is as old as mankind.

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.