Power Status Quotes

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

I am available for kings and queens but not banana republic presidents.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power..

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

We are a global power, active and responsible on the world stage. This will never change.

It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

Continuous paring of appropriations has reduced the Army virtually to the status of that of a third-rate power

I'm not that interested in just being around powerful people for the sake of it.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

The newspapers in India report claims that India has now become the world’s 6th superpower, a fact apparently evident only to those who are making the claim.