Charles Kennedy Quotes

I will protect and defend France's vital interests. I will protect and defend Europe.

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

No great power will allow itself to be strangulated.

What really matters for great powers is power—national economic and military strength—and that speaks loudly and clearly for itself.

A new multipolar world has brought more uncertainty into international affairs.

Britain can get far better results if it engages with Europe than standing on the sidelines and saying that Europe should change.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

The United States is the world's best hope; but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.

A commonwealth then is so far independent, as it can plan and provide against oppression by another, and so far dependent on another commonwealth, as it fears that other's power

Foreign policy is not philanthropy.