Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

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

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.

Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

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

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

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.

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.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

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.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

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.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

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

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

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

Conquest or superiority among other powers is not or ought not ever to be the object of republican systems.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

Political and security realities have reduced the scope of American unilateralism.

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