Joseph Nye Quotes

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

Money and donations are an important part of our political system. They are hard power.

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.