Marek Belka Quotes

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump's attacks on leaders such as Trudeau and Merkel and disrespect for NATO and other institutions are prompting a reassessment by allied governments and publics.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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

Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Never in all the long years of strife and struggle has a parliamentary conduct of international affairs been successful.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Resolved that there be held a conference of the white nations bordering upon the Pacific for unity of action against the aggression of Japan.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

After globalisation, one country can't destabilise another country, as the international community will not forget it.

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

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.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

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.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.