The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
America stands alone as the world’s indispensable nation.
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
Maintaining America's role as the greatest nation in the world means we must stay the course.
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
It's America calling the shots in everything
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'
Nobody can successfully defy the master of the hemisphere [America], in fact of the world, hence the savagery.
You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don't buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values to ensure American dominance in this chaotic world.
I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.
There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.
The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"
When I was a kid, I didn't know Canadians could be actors. I thought just Americans could get acting jobs.
Although no one likes a hegemon, America will be a better hegemon than others would be.
In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.
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.
The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.
We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.
For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.
Most people at CMU thought it was perfectly reasonable for the U.S. to invade Nicaragua. They somehow thought they owned it.
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
