Joschka Fischer Quotes

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.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

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

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom.

Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.

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.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

Great nations have much to learn from each other.

There are bonds of fraternity linking democratic countries.

Nations like individuals do not always see alike or think alike, and international cooperation and progress are not helped by any nation assuming that it has a monopoly of wisdom or of virtue.

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.

International policy does not aim at exploiting local, specific conditions to widen zones of influence and create difficulties for another country. The goal of international policy is to insure universal fulfillment of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" and to prevent a sharpening of international tensions and a strengthening of militarist and nationalist tendencies.

While pursuing its own interests, a country should accommodate the legitimate interests of others.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

Our relations with the other powers of the world are important, but still more important are our relations among ourselves.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

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

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.