I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
John Lewis Gaddis
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances... →
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat... →
Frank Gaffney
Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power... →
Neil Gaiman
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that... →
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher
In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social... →