Sergei Lavrov Quotes

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

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

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

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

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.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

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.

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

Global challenges require collective responses.

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

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

In a globalized world policies based on zero-sum games do not work.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

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

There is no way that any major international problem anywhere in the world can be solved efficiently with the United States sitting on the sideline.

All problems in the world today are multilateral, and all these one-on-one agreements simply aren't going to do it.

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.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

Global disorder is here to stay, so the challenge is to make it work as much as possible.

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 U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.