It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
The power of example is America’s greatest power in the world.
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, indigo, but you are the first philosopher, and indeed, the first man of letters for whom we are beholden to her.
The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
It irritates me that that silly little man should destroy a great monarchy by giggling into a flirtation with a third-rate American.
American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.
America is a force for good in the Middle East.
[Describing Hawaii:] ... essentially a part of the American system
The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.
Remind your people in America that they should not lose their confidence, because when they lose their confidence, the whole world suffers.
The world wants America to lead. It does not want America to impose or dictate.
It is impossible to think of a world in which America was not there in the honorable service of humanity.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
Canada is not so much a country as a continental suburb, where Little Leaguers govern ineffectually, desperate for American approval.
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.
From the end of WWI to today, American economic might would be the decisive factor in the shaping of the world order.
