Lee H. Hamilton Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

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.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.

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?'

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

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.

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.