International Quotes

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

We had a lot of international help especially from the EU and USA, which helped us to get out of this phase of emergency, to give some dynamism to Kosova.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history of international oil industry and bid the mighty peak farewell.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Leaving [from EU] will allow us to return real democratic control to important areas of national life; from international trade, the right to work and live in Britain to business regulation.

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.