Susan Rice Quotes

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

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

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

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

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

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

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

If the whole of the 20th century has taught us anything, it has taught us that borders must be respected.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

A new multipolar world has brought more uncertainty into international affairs.

Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.

In addition to deep divisions on issues such as trade, climate change, Middle East peace and nuclear weapons, Trump's attacks on leaders such as Trudeau and Merkel and disrespect for NATO and other institutions are prompting a reassessment by allied governments and publics.

I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised that South Africa has not seemed, internationally as well as internally, to take a decision that affirms the true values of your Constitution and the vision of those who were there at the beginning - Madiba himself and others.

My main concern is with the world order

Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

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.

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.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.