The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
In order to have the success with 'Empire,' you have to have Fox; you have to have huge P&A. You have to have huge budgets for the show. I'm pretty confident that the budget of 'Empire' is six times what I'm spending on 'Have And Have Nots.'
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.