19th century Quote by Robert M. Gates Download Open image “The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.” — Robert M. Gates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 19th century Century Late States United United states
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture,… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
“I argue that the United States will remain the world’s sole superpower for many decades, and probably throughout this century. We are not living… — Michael Beckley Copy Share Image
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,' — Josef Joffe Copy Share Image
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. — Giovanni Agnelli Copy Share Image
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“I was seething. I told him that “the clock is ticking” and that our patience with their lack of political progress was running out.… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Iranians would see not having nuclear weapons… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“Obama was the fourth president I had worked for who said outright that he wanted to eliminate all nuclear weapons (Carter, Reagan, and Bush… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“The passage of fourteen years had led to another significant change in the international environment. As I told Bush 43 and Condi Rice on… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States'… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I don't know General Michael Flynn well, but it's hard for me to believe anybody would allow themselves to be blackmailed by the Russians… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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