Alexander Gorchakov Quotes

Our nation is today a powerful nation.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

We’re here to preserve democracy, not to practice it.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

A people cannot be happy or prosperous or respected if the state to which they belong is not strong and respected …. It is the interest of the people that their state shall be powerful and respected.

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

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

Russia is living proof that hard power is brittle without the other dimensions of great-power status.

One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.

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

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

Country comes before politics.

In America, public opinion is the leader.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.