Global Power Quotes

It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated—to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

The power of example is America’s greatest power in the world.

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope.

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

Great powers are granted the legitimacy to exercise power on the global stage, but the price is a willingness to act—at least at the margins and consistent with their self-interest—for the common good.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

British Empire

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

American global economic imperialism is a fact. It's a known fact. It's a simple fact.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

We must never allow America to become the second strongest nation I the world.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

Donald Trump is the head of a global power.

We have the best military in the world.

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world

The great question of the 20th century is whether the Anglo-Saxon of the Slav is to impress his civilization upon the world.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.