Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
The goal of this Nation, I so strongly believe, is to be a preeminent world power. We have to understand what comes with that: The responsibility to be strong.
Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.
I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.
I'm probably a lot more closer in the 1500m to the world record than I am in the 5000m.
I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.
I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.
I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.
Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.
