US Control Quotes

The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

The power that rules the Pacific ... is the power that rules the world. And, with the Philippines, that power is and will forever be the American Republic.

NATO's essentially run by the United States.

The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.

A canal under American control or no canal.

All of Iraq's oil fields are under U.S. control which is ironic considering all the gas stations here are run by Middle Easterners.

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

The bloke who ends up sitting in the White House partially controls what we [the British] get up to.

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons ­nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but in which it still is very dependent on the United States, especially militarily, but not only in that respect. So to blame the Germans for everything is an easy way out for some of those suffering in Europe today.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

...the UN is in the hands of America. The Security Council is in the hands of America. The IAEA Board of Governors is in the hands of America.

If the United States assumes control of Iraq, it will therefore assume control of a badly battered economy