The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
Power is the ability to get things done.
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.
To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
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