Global Politics Quotes

If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.

The UN doesn’t take any moral stands unless its against Israel.

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.

Let China sleep for when she wakes, the world will tremble.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.

Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!

China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible.

I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America.

Where is the evidence that Washington's world view sways the multitude of nations? To enlist support for its wars in Korea, Vietnam and in the Gulf, the United States had to resort to a lot of bribery and threats. At the United Nations, the US has, with noteworthy regularity, been on the minority side in voting on resolutions.

Genuine association of interest on the part of the great powers must precede the transformation of the united nations military alliance into a political society of nations.

The 20th century was not only a century of totalitarian systems and wars. It was also the century of decolonization, of a great liberation. Three quarters of the residents of our planet freed themselves from colonial subjugation and - at least formally - became fully entitled citizens of the world. There never had been such an event in all history, and never will be again.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.