Shashi Tharoor Quotes

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

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

I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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

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..

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

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

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

All problems in the world today are multilateral, and all these one-on-one agreements simply aren't going to do it.

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

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

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

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

All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It's not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.

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.