Haile Selassie Quotes

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

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.

The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.

It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

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

I'm a member of the US committee o the United 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.

When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow.

Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.

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.

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

The League is dead; long live the United Nations.

The United Nations is a failed institution in its current form.

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.

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

We need to plus-up the budget of the State Department, increase the amount of aid we give, and help the world through this difficult moment. That is the price of leadership.

U. S. [world] leadership has endured, in part because American principles are embedded in the international economic framework.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

The world order needs a major overhaul.

I'm a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I've always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.

The world can no more have two summits than a circumference can have two centres.

The world is a better place when America is willing to lead.