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We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

Bill Richardson

India is the new cricket superpower. India now provides between 60% and 80% of world cricket revenues. The old powers like England or Australia don't like it, and maybe that's natural, but that doesn't change what's happening. This is our game now.

Harish Thawani

A U.N. that sees itself as a check on the sole superpower is doomed to fail. We would rather be a vehicle through which the U.S. works with the rest of the world.

Shashi Tharoor

You would have thought so, right?! ... You would have thought so! We're a superpower, but you're looking at pictures where people are saying, `We need food, we need water for our babies!'

Lisa Daniels

I do not want to hide my personal fear -- that the superpower isolates itself and remains isolated even in dealing with the disaster, ... In this dramatic emergency, the United States must not be abandoned.

Paul Cordes

Russia wants to restore its superpower status, and that includes putting these countries back into its orbit.

Yevgeny Volk

They want to be a sports superpower. That led to their pursuit of the Olympics. But they understand that to be a superpower, they have to do well in both winter and summer.

Steve Roush

You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries more weight than any other single country.

Malcolm Rifkind

Faced with potential competition from China and the European Union , the United States wish to maintain their superpower status and therefore must preserve their ties with oil-rich (Arab Gulf) states.

Taher Masri

It was a watershed for Indian diplomacy and showed the maturity and confidence with which we negotiated with the world's only superpower.

Lalit Mansingh

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

Janeane Garofalo

The rigmarole will feature several voices in one piece. The idea of the piece is if we had a superpower, what our problem would be and how the superpower would help the world.

Juanita Crider

Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.

Lilia Shevtsova

It's another thing to put on your gear and drive off into a village and make it happen.... We're proving that a group of people with many different cultures can be a great superpower. We're trying to help people (here) see that too.

William Price

Bush mentioned shared strategic interests three times in his speech. The Chinese see this as important because it's high- level recognition from the global superpower of their status as a rising great power.

Evan Medeiros