William E. Gladstone Quotes

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

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.

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

We on our part will stick to our independent foreign policy of peace, acting forever as a strong defender of world peace and a persistent proponent of common development.

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

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

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.

In these days of intimate relations, of economic stress and of intense desire to protect national interests and advance national opportunity, the treatment of questions which, from a legal standpoint, are domestic, often seriously affects international relations. The principle, each nation for itself to the full extent of its powers, is the principle of war, not of peace.

How can we expect other nations to respect our law if we don't respect theirs?

Internationalism protects the sovereignty of my country

Nations are at liberty to use their own resources in such manner, and to apply them to such purposes as they may deem best, provided they do not violate the perfect rights of other nations, nor endanger their safety, nor infringe the indispensable duties of humanity

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

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

The United States is too big and too important a country to have permanent enemies.

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.

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

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.

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.

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.

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.