Quotes About Superpower

The tension between isolationism and the global economy creates what George Kennan called "fateful alliances": multinational power blocs. We call them "New Empires" because they take on the qualities of empires. Federated and all-powerful, bureaucratic but decentralized, these superpower-style blocs of countries and corporations grow to dominate the world. They are often benevolent, but they are always despots.

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

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

After 9/11, the U.S. seemed vulnerable for the first time in a long time. We were no longer the superpower that no other country could touch. I thought, 'When and how did that dominance begin?'

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

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

Immortality... Is that a super power?

We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.

It's hard to accept that the genetic lottery gives us strengths, maybe even a superpower or two, but that it also gives us vulnerabilities.

To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We went from superpower to basket case overnight.

The drone is the ultimate imperial weapon, allowing a superpower almost unlimited reach while keeping its own soldiers far from battle.

It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

Who can keep the country safe? Who can make India a superpower? Can a coalition of 23 parties do so? Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi can achieve this.

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

I feel dyslexia is a strong point in me now. I usually joke that it's like a superpower - you only have it if you've got it!

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

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

For years, kids have been asking me what's the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you're lucky, everything works. I've been lucky.

My favorite interview question is, 'If you could have a superpower, what would it be?'

Britain is a development superpower.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.