Default Quote by Charles Krauthammer

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness…

— George W. Bush

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but…

— Robert D. Kaplan

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the…

— Barack Obama

American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile…

— Rick Atkinson

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

— Molly Ivins

USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to…

— Gore Vidal

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the…

— Martin Jacques

For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to…

— William Pfaff

... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of…

— Edward Said

Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent…

— Howard Zinn

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

— Madeleine Albright

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our…

— Wendell Willkie