Michelle Bachelet Quotes

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.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

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.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

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

If the history and practice of democracy has until now been centered on the idea of locality (the city-state, the community, the nation), it is likely that in the future it will be centered on the international or global domain.

The world many of our capabilities and alliances were created to address, no longer exists.