Charles Kennedy Quotes

I agree with those who say that democracies need to work together more effectively to stand up for the liberal democratic model that China is increasingly challenging. It's important for there to be an alliance of democracies.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the domestic policies of governments across the world, from South Africa to Indonesia.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

Internationalism protects the sovereignty of my country

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

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

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .

A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

The world wants to know - is the future a democratic one or an autocratic one? And I want to make sure that the United States leads on that, clearly that it's democratic.

Donald Trump believes in nation-state democracy; Hillary Clinton used the E.U. as a prototype for a larger global union. Donald Trump believes in sensible immigration controls.

Israel is a country with a thriving free press and a nation known across the world for its support of women's and LGBT rights, not one that should face sanctions by a supposedly peace-loving world body.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

The Liberal Democrats are proud pro-Europeans, and internationalists - and always will be.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.