Being Quote by Hugo Chavez

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

The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and…

— Tariq Ali

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 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

The United States is going to keep on with its imperialist ways.

— Boots Riley

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

So what if America loses its empire? We never should have had one in the first place.

— John Rzeznik

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people…

— Evo Morales

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

The American empire should be destroyed.

— Aleksandr Dugin

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 American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum