Robert Mugabe Quotes

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

We are pursuing what I trust is a correct course from the point of international law, and we are not intervening in the internal affairs of this country …

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

The United Nations Charter is not a social science experiment. It is a treaty.

The United States does not feel any need to consult with anybody … except when it suits them.

American foreign policy must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest.

Foreign policy is the most constraining form of policy-making

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

We have a much bigger objective. We've got to look at the long run here. This is an example - the situation between the United Nations and Iraq - where the United Nations is deliberately intruding into the sovereignty of a sovereign nation.... Now this is a marvelous precedent (to be used in) all countries of the world.

These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.