Helmut Kohl Quotes

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

Solitary decisions, no matter how well-founded they may appear to individuals, must belong to the past - along with national, unilateralist action.

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

America should not play a solitary role with respect either to security or to reform.

You can’t go it alone even if you are the world’s only superpower.

No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transitional, common threats and challenges.

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.

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

Moscow would have to give up its its global aspirations and agree to obey rules that it had played no part in devising. European Commission President Romano Prodi expressed this formula best in 2002: Russia would share with the EU wvweything but institutions..... this meant Russia would adopt EU rules and regulations but would not be able to influence their development.

When we see so many conflicts multiplying, the only way to allow the international community to be able to address those conflicts, the only way to allow the international community to act boldly, is with unity of the countries of the region, able to serve together and in the same universal principles.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.