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The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.