American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate. — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
American power, innovation, and values make the U.S. military the strongest fighting force in human history. — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
“American power made it possible for Europeans to believe that power was no longer important." -Robert Kagan” — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
The main problem with American power is not that it is American... No, the main problem with American power is the power… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The Internet has long been heralded as an unprecedented instrument of democratization and liberalization, even emancipation. But in the eyes of the… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We have a deep sense of American equality and opportunity, and that informs the way in which we brought our American power… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If I were doing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member, the United States, because that's the real reflection of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it,… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
