Quotes About United States Superpower

#1. We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

William J. Clinton

#2. I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

Christiane Amanpour

#3. To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Nikki Cox

#4. And I swear, she tasted like the sun.

S. Gregory

#5. Vibrizzio? You named it! Okay, this isn't even close to healthy.

Nicki Elson

#6. Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin.

Manoj Vaz

#7. I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#8. We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,' said Mother. 'What on earth did you think it was?' 'It looks like a badly skinned whale,' said Larry, peering at it closely.

Gerald Durrell

#9. There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.

Henry Miller

#10. Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Michael Ignatieff

#11. Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#13. We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.

Michael Beschloss

#14. I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

Robert M. Gates

#15. Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Joe Shuster

#16. Now that we've transitioned to more Smart TVs, where people are broadcasting their cable box, I hope that Geek & Sundry is something that people will click on in the future, knowing that they're going to get content that they love.

Felicia Day

#17. Happiness always has an object ... Depends on external things. Joy ... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

Susanna Tamaro

#18. Myths that need clarification: "Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach." False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.

Erma Bombeck

#19. Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

John Spratt

#20. Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.

Jon Stewart

#21. Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#22. He who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Hannah More

#23. People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore.

Peter Kuznick