The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
Basie: Don't let me down kid you're an American now. Jim: [in a Brooklyn accent] Hey how'ya doin' Frank?
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fring...
Dak: Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.
Lando: I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever.
The Americans were constantly hectoring Africans about their behavior and values—protecting oneself against AIDS, limited family size, sleeping under mosquito nets. Chinese messages… focused on big, tangible things that fairly shouted: This stadi...
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.
Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days,you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire...
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire...
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on...
Boba Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me. Darth Vader: The Empire will compensate you, if he dies. Put him in.
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
