Transnational Relations Quotes

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

The Organization of American States [OAS] is a kind of mini United Nations where we can be voted down in only three languages instead of six [the official UN languages], thereby saving translator’s fees.

We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries, the fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.

The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.

This Empire has but one danger: it is the danger by the combination of the three names, Ireland, United States and Canada.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

The national Chamber of Commerce does not represent Main Street in Peoria. It represents Main Street in Shanghai.