Declining Power Quotes

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

Receding power rides a swift horse.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I look around the world, I don't see America's influence growing around the world. I see our influence receding, in part because of the failure of Barack Obama to deal with our economic challenges at home; in part because of our withdrawal from our commitment to our military in the way I think it ought to be; in part because of the turmoil with Israel.

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.

The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.