Samantha Power Quotes

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.

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

No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transitional, common threats and challenges.

In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.

A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.

Isolated decisions, however well-founded they might seem to the individual, and national go-it-alone moves must belong to the past. They should not be the 21st-century method of choice, particularly because the consequences of the European community's actions must often be carried collectively.

It's crucial we make the case for institutions like Nato and the E.U. as foundations for the peace and prosperity we have enjoyed for decades - and which too many people appear to take for granted.

In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably bound with that of our neighbours.

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

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

The decisive factor for the future of Europe - and before all things, for the 'restoration' of Europe - will be whether political thought and national feelings are influenced by the reality of internationalism.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

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.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only be permanently safeguarded through concourse with other countries. And whereas nationalism scoffs at the idea of international laws and regulations, patriotism seeks to create such.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

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