Emmanuel Macron Quotes

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

Unilateralism will lead to the decline of American Power.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

China is a global actor without (yet) being a true global power.

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

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

America can change its presidents, but the world doesn't change.

I have spent more time thinking about European issues than even I can imagine - so many years thinking about Britain and the way our influence around the world was amplified through the European Union.

The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.