Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.