Miroslav Lajcak Quotes

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

No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transitional, common threats and challenges.

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.

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

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.

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.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

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.

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 collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

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

Like it or not, we are all in this together now, rich nations and poor alike …

America should not play a solitary role with respect either to security or to reform.

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

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.