— B. W. Powe Canadian writer 1955
Forms, Eulogies, Images and Symbols, p. 157
Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose (2007)
„There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power.“
Response to a question by George Carey (a former Archbishop of Canterbury), after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (26 January 2003), as to whether the US had given due consideration to the use of "soft power" vs "hard power" against the regime of Saddam Hussein; this has sometimes been portrayed as an accusation by an Archbishop of Canterbury that the United States was engaged in "empire building", in which Powell's response has been paraphrased:
2000s
Contexto: There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power. But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power — and here I think you're referring to military power — then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with.
I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan.
So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world.
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.
Colin Powell5
1937Citas similares
— James Comey American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1960
2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)
— Harry Hay American gay rights activist 1912 - 2002
Statement of Purpose: Gay Liberation Front (Dec. 1969)
„Every American is hard-wired in history or experience to be libertarian about something.“
— Bob Barr Republican and Libertarian politician 1948
Marshall News Messenger (27 July 2008), Copelin, Laylan Libertarians want to be kingmakers in legislative races http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/07/28/0728libertarians.html, Marhall News Messenger, 27 July 2008.
2000s, 2008
— Lyndon B. Johnson American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969) 1908 - 1973
News Conference (28 July 1965) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=27116.
1960s
On her aim in “Interview with Nilaja Sun” https://www.voicemag.uk/interview/2818/interview-with-nilaja-sun (2017 Aug 6)
— Zhou Enlai 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China 1898 - 1976
Reported in Christian Crusade Weekly (March 3, 1974) as having been said be Zhou to Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1965; reported as a likely misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 133.
Disputed
— Ron Paul American politician and physician 1935
Federalizing Social Policy, January 30, 2006 http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2006/tst013006.htm
2000s, 2006-2009
— Benjamin Page Professor of Decision Making 1939
Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens, Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It (University of Chicago Press: 2017), p. 90
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
1910s, Address to the Knights of Columbus (1915)
Contexto: The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
— Harry V. Jaffa American historian and collegiate professor 1918 - 2015
2000s, Interview with Peter Robinson (2009)
„If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.“
— Pearl S. Buck American writer 1892 - 1973
— Calvin Coolidge American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929) 1872 - 1933
1920s, Whose Country Is This? (1921)
Contexto: From its very beginning our country has been enriched by a complete blend of varied strains in the same ethnic family. We are, in some sense, an immigrant nation, molded in the fires of a common experience. That common experience is our history. And it is that common experience we must hand down to our children, even as the fundamental principles of Americanism, based on righteousness, were handed down to us, in perpetuity, by the founders of our government.
— Daniel J. Boorstin American historian 1914 - 2004
Foreword to America and the image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought, Meridian Books, 1960, as cited in: Robert Andrews (1993) The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&lpg=PA207&dq=Our%20attitude%20toward%20our%20own%20culture%20has%20recently%20been%20characterized%20by%20two%20qualities%2C%20braggadocio%20and%20petulance.&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q&f=false, Columbia University Press, p. 207.
— Dan Fante American writer 1944 - 2015
Dan Fante [quote appears on Goodreads but does not state a source]
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„The trouble with me is that I’m an outsider. And that’s a very hard thing to be in American life.“
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy 1929 - 1994
Quoted in The Unknown Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1994) edited by Bill Adler
— Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States of America 1874 - 1964
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)
— Jean-François Revel French writer and philosopher 1924 - 2006
Fuente: 2000s, Anti-Americanism (2003), p. 143
— Paul Theroux, libro The Kingdom by the Sea
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain, ch. 1 (1983).
