Susan Rice Quotes

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.

You can’t go it alone even if you are the world’s only superpower.

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

The United States is necessary for the solution to many problems in the world today. However, we are no longer sufficient..

In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.

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.

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

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

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.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

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.

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

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

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.

America should not play a solitary role with respect either to security or to reform.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

People think that it only takes an American decision to solve this or that problem [in foreign affairs].

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

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

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