Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Quotes

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

Every government is in some respects a problem for every other government.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

The nebulocity known as the international community is ultimately accountable to nobody.

All foreign policy is the intervention of one nation's domestic politics into another nation's domestic politics.

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

The diplomatic relations upon which our present system of international comity is based are being encountered by new forces and combinations which are fast rendering them impotent and antiquated

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.