There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.
There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
In an era of ever-increasing globalization, what it takes to become and remain a science superpower has fundamentally changed.
I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
If I could have a superpower, I would choose the ability to make people's heart stop, if I just point at them.
If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.
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!
When superpower countries like the United States and the former Soviet Union contemplated moving their conflicts to outer space, there was justifiable fear and dread.
Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.
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.
Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.
If I had a superpower, it would be to teleport. The idea of seeing the world in one day is exciting, but the thought of not checking bags almost moves me to tears.
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.
Americans who grew up in the 1930s or 1940s still have some fleeting memory of what the country was like before it became the steroidal superpower it is today.
Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.
Economic growth and 'future superpower' status is all very good but that doesn't guarantee dignity for every individual.
It's one thing if a politician in a small country says a little bit of torturing is good to do. There is a qualitative difference... when it's a candidate to run a superpower.
This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.
By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.
There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
I always had a family that instilled in me red hair was my superpower and how it was such a lovely thing.
She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
As colonial puppeteer and successful restorer of Russia as imperial superpower, Mr. Putin is Stalin's consummate heir.
Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.
When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.
I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.
If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.
I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!
I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.
No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.
I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.
Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.
One country and one country alone, China, aspires to be the world's superpower and has the resources to do it.
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.
Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.
Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.
We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.
Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.
I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.
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