Seth Moulton Quotes

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

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.

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

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

You cannot have individual foreign policy. You cannot have celebrity foreign policy.

The rules that organizations such as the United Nations rely on were not written by the majority of the world’s people, who have long seen powerful states declare exceptions for themselves. Newly powerful states will challenge this system --

Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.