Condoleezza Rice Quotes

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

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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

Let us mingle with other nations as one of them and not stand as one apart. Let us seek their friendship not their hate.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

... assertive multilateralism.

No nation can ever be safe in the position it holds among nations, however great and however imposing, unless it recognizes those principles of justice and equality which bind together the nations of the world.

[Arguing against isolationism:] This country is not looking for prestige. It has all it can use. It is not looking for power. It has, likewise, all that it knows how to use .... [But] are we willing to live behind a Maginot Line or a Great Wall of China here on the North American continent, and trade and travel in the rest of the world only as permitted by a stronger power than we are?

I do not applaud our quitting the League [of Nations]. The people act as if by withdrawing we have achieved something great …. This shows the shallowness of thought of the Japanese public.

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.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

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.

We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.

I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

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