Lionel Jospin Quotes

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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

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.

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.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

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

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..

At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

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.

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.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

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.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Americans tend to go for it all. In international politics you can’t have it all. You have to compromise.

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

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

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

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.