John Dewey Quotes

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

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Every foreign policy has to have a moral purpose.

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

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.

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.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

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

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

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

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

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism - but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

I don't believe in ideology in international relations.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.