Li Peng Quotes

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

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?

The United Nations is really the League of Nations 2.0

When developing countries go to the WTO and register their protest over things, they should be heard. Their views should be considered by the rich countries.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.

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.

The world order and American actions in the world have deep wiring.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

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?'

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk about the world, carve up the countries, shape borders. For Putin, treaties, alliances, Nato, the EU are stumbling blocks.

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?