US Influence, U.S. Influence Quotes

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States.

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.

We were quite naïve about the use of American power.

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.

Neoconservatives habitually overstate America’s ability to export democracy.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.

We would be hard pressed to find a majority of any country in the world who admired the United States the way they did from World War I up until the day we went into Iraq.

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

This will be the century of America.

The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that its leaders continue to value being viewed as benign.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the Palestinians. The strong voice of the president of the United States will have a major impact on public opinion, not only in this country, but also in Israel and also in Palestine.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

The power that rules the Pacific ... is the power that rules the world. And, with the Philippines, that power is and will forever be the American Republic.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.