Priti Patel Quotes

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

Give me the whole world to run and then I'll be happy. If tomorrow I was told I had to sort out the whole world's problems I'd sleep like a baby.

We can solve world peace and world famine.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

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.

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.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

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

So I've gone in and out of the U.N., working on counter-terrorism, on U.N. reform, on peacekeeping, peace and security issues, many things through the years but always with a strong interest in humanitarian issues, and human rights issues as well.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

America has saved the world.

Since war is everybody's tragedy, diplomacy is everybody's business.

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.