Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Quotes

We cannot cede our moral authority to multinational debating societies.

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

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

The international body must have the institutions and powers it needs to do what it is created to do; in other words it must be boldly and openly set up as a super-state on a level above the national sovereignties, and that, in turn, means that the Member States must have accepted in advance as much limitation and subordination of their particular sovereignties as this superior sovereign power requires.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

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

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

The foreign policy adopted by our government is to do justice to all, and to submit to wrong by none.

No nation is responsible to itself alone, but that laws of political morality are universal; and that obedience to such laws is incumbent upon all nations.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

…though the American government did much to encourage the organs of the League, the fact that it stood aside, sharing neither the rights nor the duties of the League powers, was a fatal handicap to joint action.

Many global solutions still require the binding force and permanence that only treaties can provide.

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'