Quotes About International

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

I feel like I've changed a lot since the London Games. I was really young, and it was my first year on the international stage. I've matured physically since then, and I've become stronger, and because of that, I've gained a lot of confidence.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility.

I strongly believe that we would be amiss to cut ourselves off from Saudi Arabia without expending every effort to avert disaster.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

American diplomats meet with formal government officials, we meet with opposition protesters, not just in Hong Kong or China. This literally happens in every single country in which an American embassy is present.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

Our adversaries must see diplomacy as their best option because war with the United States will force them to bear enormous costs.

One good thing about Indian cricket is that we have options. Most of the international teams don't have bowling options left after retirement, but we have everything right now.

Ordinary citizens are obliged and, if need be, compelled by force to meet their commitments. But let higher obligations of an international order be involved, and governments repudiate them, more often than not with a disdainful shrug of the shoulders.

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

I am one of the facilitators, helping to make the voice of Hongkongers heard in the international community. I also organize student class boycotts and provide assistance for high school students.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

When we're actually modeling good behavior, and when we get results, other countries are more likely to follow our lead.

Too often, you see film makers from other countries who have made interesting, original films, and then they come here and get homogenized into being hack Hollywood directors. I don't want to fall into that.

What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.