Claire Danes Quotes

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

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

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

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

Isolationism is over.

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

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

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.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

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

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

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.

Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.

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

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

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.

America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.