David Miliband Quotes

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

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?

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.

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

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

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.

For most U. S. citizens, the rest of the world has scant importance. Though the lack of interest in the rest of the world is a long-standing American trait, the feeling of complete national security is relatively new.

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.

Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

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

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many of those who practice politics have taken a cramped and limited view of Europe and the rest of the world.

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.

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

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

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

Isolationism is over.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.