Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes

One of the main goals of the reforms is to broaden the rights of Mexicans. We needed a standard criminal code, the same rule of law all over the country. Instead of having different laws in every state, there will be the same law all over the country — at the federal and the local level — for any criminal procedure.

The Nation is ceasing to be the leading form off the world’s structure; organizations transcending national boundaries are becoming more and more numerous and effective.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

China's development benefits other countries.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

Because America leads the world by example, it's no surprise that some might seek to imitate our domestic rules and regulations on a global scale.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

We must face the fact that the United Nations is not yet the international equivalent of our own legal system and the rule of law.

If local civil government is necessary for local civil peace, then world civil government is necessary for world peace.

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

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

Show me a man who respects the rights of all countries, but is ready to defend his own against them all, and I will show you a man who is both a nationalist and an internationalist.

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 time has passed when nations should be allowed to do as they individually wish with regard to global matters, each striving solely in its own interests, with the more powerful now able to destroy all humanity and more. For the common good, we need to frame and abide by a higher system of law and justice, designed with less national, more godlike, perspectives for the preservation and welfare of the biosphere as a whole.

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.