Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

No nation can ever be safe in the position it holds among nations, however great and however imposing, unless it recognizes those principles of justice and equality which bind together the nations of the world.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

I'm resolved to be active on diplomacy as Japan further develops relationships based on trust and cooperation with countries including the U.S.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.