Romano Prodi Quotes

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

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.

I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

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.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

The pursuit of one's own interest seems to be the rule for international relations, without the common good of humanity being taken into consideration.