Mohammad Javad Zarif Quotes

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.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Just because we are a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. International summits and organizations like WTO take decisions which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

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.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Isolationism is over.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

There are no national strategies any longer. There's only national poverty. With the global economy there are only global strategies. We're moving from a world of enemies that are national to a world of global dangers. Can you place boundaries on pollution?

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

Foreign policy does not mean guns and rifles, but utilizing all legitimate international means to convince others.

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

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.

The political game remains predominantly national. It is usually played as if national units were more independent economically than they actually are.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights.

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.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.