Klaus Schwab Quotes

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

America must always lead on the world stage.

And being in the EU has given Britain a stronger voice in the world. Britain leads in Europe, from trade to climate change, from good governance to debt relief for the poorest nations, and in turn Europe helps to lead the world.

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.

The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

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.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

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.

But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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.

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

Restrain our citizens from embarking individually in a war in which their country takes no part …. How desirable, then, must it be in a Government like ours to see its citizens adopt individually the views, the interests, and the conduct which their country should pursue, divesting themselves of those passions and partialities which tend to lessen useful friendships and to embarrass and embroil us in the calamitous scenes of Europe.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

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

France will be heeded if it has a message to convey.

Ninety percent of foreign policy is reacting to whatever's happening out there.

All the world looks to this nation for its future, for the leadership that is required at this moment. And we cannot give that leadership and we cannot offer it if we are split up in guerilla groups chewing on each other.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

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