Quotes About International

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

Producers and studios want to make movies that are more appealing internationally and I think that you have to use your different cultures as an advantage to be able to make those movies.

There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

If you're someone from the government and you meet people from other countries, you want to know who you're dealing with. It's the same for them [in Valerian].

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.

Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.

I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

The best defence of peace is not power, but the removal of the causes of war, and international agreements which will put peace on a stronger foundation, than the terror of destruction.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.