„As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will.“

— Noam Chomsky

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„As the most powerful state, the U.S. makes its own laws, using force and conducting economic warfare at will. It also threatens sanctions against countries that do not abide by its conveniently flexible notions of "free trade."“
— Noam Chomsky
„The U.S. has always insisted on its right to use force, whatever international law requires, and whatever international institutions decide.“
— Noam Chomsky
„Now, on other hand, as President, I cannot just impose my will on Congress -- the Congress of the United States -- even though sometimes I wish I could. The legislative branch has its own powers and its own prerogatives, and so they check my power and balance my power. I appoint some of our judges, but I cannot tell them how to rule, because every person in America -- from a child living in poverty to me, the President of the United States -- is equal under the law. And a judge can make a determination as to whether or not I am upholding the law or breaking the law. And I am fully accountable to that law.“
— Barack Obama