Mike Huckabee Quotes

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

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

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

A big country has to be careful. It's so easy for a big country to give offense.

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

You can’t go it alone even if you are the world’s only superpower.

The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America - the greatest nation on Earth - just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins - look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.

Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

I am only the Security Council's servant, though not always its humble one.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

Men love power.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

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?

Followers vie keenly with each others as to who shall rank first with his chiefs, the chiefs as to who shall have the most numerous and the bravest followers. It is an honor as well as a source of strength to be thus always surrounded by a large body of picked youths; it is an ornament in peace and a defense in war.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

The world wants America to lead. It does not want America to impose or dictate.

If we do not have the economic resources to be a leader, it’s going to affect our foreign policy.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

Is the balance of power a fixed and unalterable standard? Or is it not a standard perpetually varying, as civilization advances, and as new nations spring up, and take their place among established political communities?