#superpower

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#around #assumes #behave #believing #blind

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

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#al capone #capone #superpower #villains

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

— Janeane Garofalo

#better off #communist #multiple #off #superpower

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

— Stephen Harper

#contains #continent #now #shares #superpower

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

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#make #nation #status #such #superpower

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

— Andrew Mitchell

#brilliant #britain #described #development #doing

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

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#always #citizens #did #dreams #ever

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#alone #america #break #centuries #cliches