Chuck D Quotes

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

If we want to be members of the world community, we need to think that way.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

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.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

We have a tendency in America to deal with foreign affairs on a day by day basis. We are so saturated with facts that we do no look at a longer, broader picture.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

It is not a winning game for Europeans to have a hostility to the United States.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

A world state which which embraces the entire globe and all of humanity cannot exist. The political world is a pluriverse, not a universe.