Lal Bahadur Shastri Quotes

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

We do not believe that good relations with one country precludes good relations with another.

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.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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

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.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Don't think we've ever convinced the American people that it's not in our interest to be isolationists. Our tendency for the first century, maybe century-and-a-half of our existence was to be isolationists, to hide behind the two mighty oceans, to become self-sufficient, and to follow Washington's caution not to become involved in foreign entanglements and alliances.

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

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

Conquest or superiority among other powers is not or ought not ever to be the object of republican systems.

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.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

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

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

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.