Madeleine Albright Quotes

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

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.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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

... assertive multilateralism.

History asks of us that we never act unilaterally, never alone, but only within the alliances of NATO, the United Nations and the European Union as it is clearly specified in international law

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

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

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.

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.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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

Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

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

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

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

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

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.