Antonio Guterres Quotes

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

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

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

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.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

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.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

The Newly established United Nations must be a force for action and not merely a frothing of words.

We must have a world organization for the purpose of deliberation, but not for the purpose of waging wars and imposing sanctions.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

The U.N. was created for people.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.

We need to really use the full force of diplomacy. And we need to be seen and understood to be on the side of diplomacy and international law.

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.