Condoleezza Rice Quotes

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.

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

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

Frankly, Senators, if nations may not safely agree to respect each other’s rights, and may not agree to confer if one party to the compact threatens trespass, or may not agree to advise if one party to the pact is threatened by an outside power, then all concerted efforts to tranquilize the world and stabilize peace must be flung to the winds. Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.