America Quote by Donald Kagan

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 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

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

— Tariq Ali

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

— Eddie Izzard

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the…

— Felix Dennis

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts…

— Howard Zinn

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

— Harry Browne

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

... 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

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

— Robert D. Kaplan

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which…

— Niall Ferguson

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain…

— Orson Scott Card