Damon Albarn Quotes

We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

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.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

The role that I played in Ukraine ended up resulting in Ukraine becoming part of the European community.

In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

We value our relationship with U.S.A. and are engaged with them at various levels.

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

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

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

Isolationism is over.