in the international arena, national power is a direct…

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

“The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the…

— Daniel Yergin

Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of…

— Tojo Hideki

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The shift in national power may be overshadowed by an even more fundamental shift in the nature of power. Enabled by communications technologies, power…

— National Research Council

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to…

— Ed Royce

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible…

— Walter Wriston

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

— Noam Chomsky

I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our…

— Brian Reade

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,…

— Christopher Bond

It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined.

— Lee R. Raymond