Don Edwards Quotes

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

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

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

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.

Internationalism protects the sovereignty of my country

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.

We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world - monarchies, kingdoms, large powers - we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.