American president Quote by Rashid Khalidi

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

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 should stop being the 'empire' and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

— Hugo Chavez

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

— John Rzeznik

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant…

— Lamar Alexander

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

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

— Harry Browne

I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United…

— Barack Obama

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