Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

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

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.

We are the dominant power. And that imposes on us a responsibility to be actually concerned with the well-being of the world.

America must always lead on the world stage.

Since the shock of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's death, I have been reflecting on what made him so special. To my mind, it is simply this: Kofi Annan was both one of a kind and one of us.

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

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

António Guterres role as Secretary-General in bringing all powers together is very essential' and we hope he can succeed, it's not easy of course.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

I think I've gotten and developed tremendous relationships throughout the world with the leaders.

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.

The sky cannot have two suns.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.