Superpower Quotes

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.

They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

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.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

I don't have a superpower.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.

The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.