Bill Clinton Quotes

I think that America is a part of the world, that we want to cooperate with the world. We are not the dominant power in the world, that everyone falls in behind us. But we want to reach out and cooperate.

Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.

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.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Under the Nixon-Ford administration, there has evolved a kind of secretive "Lone Ranger" foreign policy—a one-man policy of international adventure. This is not an appropriate policy for America.

America has saved the world.

Sometimes everyone is foreign minister.

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

America remains the indispensable nation. There are times when America, and only America, can make a difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression.

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

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

At the United Nations, that's the number one comment I get is they're just so happy to see the United States lead again.

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.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

I want to use whatever resources in the world we can use, unite whatever force we can unite, ally with whichever partner we can find.