Economic Might Quotes

The United States is like a giant steam generator. Once the fire has been lighted under it, there is no limit to the amount of power it can generate.

As in law so in war, the longest purse finally wins.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

America has at one bound become a world power in a sense she never was before.

A superpower, however, is only as good as the forces through which it exercises that power.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

There is no denying the fact that China has been able to convert its economic might into commercial and technological capability.

Europe is an economic giant, a political dwarf, and a military worm.

The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new, and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.

Mere population size has been no indicator of economic or military clout.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

To be an Abolitionist was not for the faint-hearted. The slaveholders represented for the first half of the nineteenth century the most closely knit and most important single economic unit in the nation, their millions of bondsmen and millions of acres of land comprising an investment of billions of dollars. This economic might had its counterpart in political power, given its possessors dominance within the nation and predominance within the South.

The United States is potent and great. When you shake there is a deep tremblor that passes through the enormous vertebrae of the Andes. If you clamor, it is heard like the roaring of a lion.

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.