Barack Obama Quotes

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

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

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

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.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

You can’t go it alone even if you are the world’s only superpower.

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.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

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 world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

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.

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

Isolationism is over.

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

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.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.