Stephen A. Schwarzman Quotes

Ahead now, I think you'll see the big nations shrink back into their own corners of the world. I'm not saying we'll see no international trade, but it will be nothing like the conveyer belt from China to Wal-Mart that we've known the last few decades. And the prospects for conflict are very, very high.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

President Obama could keep a big map with push pins on it to keep track of how many countries hate us, and when we get down to only half, let's have a ball. I'll blow up the balloons myself.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

We in Europe are confronting an unsettling feeling we never wanted to know again: how easy it is for countries to fall away from one another

In the face of a world that is far from being tranquil and the formidable tasks before us, all Party members must be mindful of the potential danger and stay prepared against adversities in times of peace. We must be keenly aware of the rigorous challenges brought about by ever-sharpening international competition.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

If we are not anti-China, are we still human?

There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us … First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said?