Geopolitical Influence Quotes

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

Russia is a gas station posing as a country.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Food is a weapon. Food is a ... tool in the kit of American diplomacy.

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society.

From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests.

Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace.

The Russians are succeeding in continuing their dismemberment of Ukraine, they're succeeding in exerting enormous influence in the Middle East, which they never had before. They are succeeding - they have succeeded in interfering with our election, and we know that they continue that in the French elections and other elections. And so far they have paid a little or no penalty for all of this misbehavior.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

Putin is lovely.

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.

If France does not seize this most beautiful part of America and set up a colony, [...] the English colony which is becoming quite large, will increase to such a degree that, in less than one hundred years, it will be strong enough to take over all of America and chase away all other nations.

I believe Saddam Hussein's strategic objective was, and remains, to assert dominance over the Gulf region.

The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

For half a millennium, Russian foreign policy has been characterized by soaring ambitions that have exceeded the country’s capabilities.

China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

The primary agency responsible for rallying U.S.-led interests around the world appears to be having the air sucked out of it. If you are Russia and you are looking at that right now, do you love what you are seeing?

The US has been the leading terrorist state in the world for many years.