Affair Quote by Felix Dennis

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

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

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

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the…

— Iain Banks

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

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

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and…

— Dar Williams

Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing…

— Niall Ferguson

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. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people…

— Barack Obama

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

— Harry Browne

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

— Robert Kiyosaki