Rene Girard Quotes

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

Conflicts have to be resolved. That is the responsibility of leadership. And globalization is the biggest conflict today.

We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

At times we will have mutual interests with Mexico, but at times we will not.

I have always done my bit to improve Indo-Pak ties, but sometimes you say something, and it is interpreted the other way.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

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.

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.