American Power Quotes
16 quotes by 13 authors
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'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
— Hillary Clinton
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Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
— Jimmy Carter
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our…
— Barack Obama
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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 World…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of…
— Barack Obama
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What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe,…
— James T. Walsh
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
— Joseph Nye
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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 history…
— Walter Russell Mead
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American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community…
— Chuck Hagel
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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of…
— Elliott Abrams
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
— Elliott Abrams
Who Wrote These American Power Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 16 American Power Quotes as follows: