Joe Lieberman Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

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.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

The EU is a community of values, not military buildups.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

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

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

... assertive multilateralism.

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

To the creators of the League of Nations who originated the first serious efforts to a better understanding between nations

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

For decades, allies have counted on the U.S. to step up to the plate to work with them to protect the shared values we hold dear. As we face numerous international challenges, both old and new, we need to put more faith and investment in our international and diplomatic institutions, not weaken them.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

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

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

India and the U.S. stand together in upholding an international rules-based system that has benefited all nations.

From Nato to the U.N. and the E.U., the generation that lived through the first half of the 20th century knew they needed to create a new world order. An order with rules and institutions which, however imperfect, could act both as constraints on individual countries going rogue and as catalysts for co-operation for mutual benefit.

We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

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

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.