Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.