Political Dominance Quotes

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.

I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

It is quite clear, however, that there won't be any real changes with the current clan structure having seized power in the course of the Karabakh conflict.

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin.

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

They [the Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

The Popes of Rome engrossing what they pleased of political rule into their own hands, extended their dominion over men's eyes, as they had before over their judgments, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not;

I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.

The establishment of the Republican Party, which I've been watching all my life. They always seem to win. I mean, there was the exception, of course, with Goldwater back in '64, which turned out to be a catastrophe. But it always seems that the Mitt Romneys and the East Coast types always end up winning the fights.

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn't dominate.

Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.