Elizabeth May Quotes

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

The United Nations is a means. It is not an end for American foreign policy.

History asks of us that we never act unilaterally, never alone, but only within the alliances of NATO, the United Nations and the European Union as it is clearly specified in international law

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

It's one of my government's ambitions to secure a seat for Ireland on the U.N. Security Council so that we can play an even greater role in international affairs and try to build what we all believe in, which is a world of laws.

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.