American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal…

— Harold Pinter

The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power itself. It…

— Timothy Garton Ash

What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe…

— Walter F. Mondale

Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed…

— Jimmy Carter

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

— Ian Bremmer

I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an…

— Daniel Fried

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

— William Kristol

“The Internet has long been heralded as an unprecedented instrument of democratization and liberalization, even emancipation. But in the eyes of the US government,…

— Glenn Greenwald

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through…

— Walter Russell Mead

We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and…

— Barack Obama

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going…

— Robert Fisk

If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of the distribution…

— John Bolton

“The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour