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The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. -- Whittaker Chambers
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries. -- Ed Royce
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth? -- Henry A. Kissinger
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. -- Lajos Kossuth
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. -- Alexander Hamilton
A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine, -- Walter Wriston
The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century. -- Pankaj Mishra
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. -- Ulrich Beck
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. -- Tom Allen
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. -- William Proxmire
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks. -- Tony Snow
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. -- Vladimir Putin
In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly. -- David Souter
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. -- Jon Meacham
I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. -- Dan Brown
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. -- Todd Gitlin
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress. -- Dick Thornburgh
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins. -- Harry Bridges
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security. -- Samantha Power
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore. -- Samantha Power
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.' -- Samantha Power
President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president. -- Samantha Power
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response -- Tom Allen
Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity, -- Li Zhaoxing
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security... -- Alfred Adler
You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves -- Otto von Bismarck
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness... -- Abraham Lincoln
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit. -- Richard M. Nixon
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life. -- Florence Luscomb
I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone. -- Gerald R. Ford
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. -- Hannah Arendt
Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families. -- Barbara Mikulski
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require. -- Alexander Hamilton

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