Top 264 Superpower Quotes & Sayings

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

I genuinely think I have a hugging superpower. I'm starting to master the transformative hug. I have a strange memory ability. There's a lot of information that I don't cognitively know, but that seems to rise up at moments of need. That feels like a superpower. Something that nobody knows about me is that I discovered at a young age that I could sing in two tones. I don't do this in performance, because it's something very special to me. But I've learned that it's a practice that goes back far in time.

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

America is the number one superpower today in the world.

Basically with the financing of the war economy America emerged as the great power that developed logically into a superpower. I am not going to explain to you the history of the Cold War because you certainly know it but what we see now is China as the rising economic superpower, one that is certainly moving forward.

Sadly, in the most nerdy way possible, my superpower is anagramming.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.

The only remaining superpower is international public opinion.

Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.

Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower.

I think Russia is dangerous, not a superpower. I know what the president is trying to say. I worked for him for five years, not just two.He doesn't want us to overreact. He doesn't want to go back to the Cold War and some superpower competition. But my own view, and I think General Mattis stated something similar today, is that Russia is a challenge for the United States. It is a threat to some of our allies.

A small nation can fight a superpower with determination and dedication.

Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

We are not a superpower like the U.S. We are a small and neutral country.

I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

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

Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.

I always at home as a kid tried to move something with your hand and it doesn't move and then you get to do it in a movie. I mean my superpower is quickness but you know what I'm saying. You get a superpower and you're like "Man this is awesome. I get to pretend I have a superpower."

China has, without doubt, become an economic superpower.

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.

The world is now unipolar and contains o­nly o­ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.

I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-" "It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

I don't have a superpower.

I want everyone to be aware of what their superpower is because I believe that we all have superpowers.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

Even a superpower has limits.

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

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

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

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.

Doing a one-person play feels like you've just discovered you had a superpower.

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

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

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

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor.

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

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

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

My fans are a huge superpower for me and my survival.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make much progress unless there's a strong solidarity movement within the superpower that will restrain its actions. With more support within the United States, I think the Haitian efforts could have succeeded.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.