Silvan Shalom Quotes

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

It is a pro-U.N. movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a pro-American movie. It's a movie people should be watching and not denigrating.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

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.

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.

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.

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

I was an international studies major.

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.

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

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

You do not build a foreign policy based on one man.

The United Nations is a failed institution in its current form.

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations... It brings us into very dangerous territory and it could be used and abused by any other country. We need to continue to base our security on multilateralism, and on the Security Council.

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

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

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.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

I think it also important that the policies of the great nations be made simple and clear, so that the chance of misunderstanding is minimized.

Americans must step back and realize that an effective foreign policy is very difficult to devise, and we must present a united front to make it work.