Small Countries Quotes

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

If a small, wealthy country, was threatened by a larger neighbor, it could not provide for its own security…. They depended on the peace-loving, large nations. That burden fell to the big 5 powers…. They in turn were given extraordinary powers, especially the power to negate all decisions over the use of military force.

The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.

People in the big rich countries are often extremely dismissive of the small countries. They think nothing that happens there is of any interest or that it matters at all, but, at the very least, with that attitude they miss out on some extraordinary stories.

Monaco's neutrality is one of our main attributes - the role of small countries is to act as go-betweens between big nations.

In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.

If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.