Sushma Swaraj Quotes

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.

World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

The United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

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

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.