Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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

When two giants meet with each other, when there is too little room for them on the world's surface, they try to measure their strength in order to decide by war the debatable question of hegemony.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Foreign policy works best when force and diplomacy are used together.

There is a limitation upon the ability of the U. S. to solve these problems [of foreign policy].

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

Every time we oppose a sanction [internationally proposed], we lesson our influence.

… make Englishmen cognizant of the processes through which the progressive destinies of Europe are being worked out, so that whenever European Affairs may call for interference, they may be in no doubt as to the course to be pursued.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

One of the problems with the Security Council is that there are vetoes, and they do not allow us to do what might be justified from the point of view of sanctions.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

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

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.