Quotes About International

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

Money is paid to them in Germany and the kick-back is transferred to the local military attaché and he transfers it to the princes.' He concluded: 'Not a piece of equipment would go from the US to Saudi without Bandar getting a commission.'13

Glamorous, intelligent, resilient, bracingly direct, and prone to obscenities, Zohra seems like the kind of woman who would run an international spy ring.

Only this time Russia has not been able to – and will not be able to – find another Ribbentrop and another Molotov to conclude a new pact prepared by the Kremlin.

Berman observes, for instance, that much of the world now blames Israel for the suicidal derangement of the Palestinians.

President Bush recently decided to cut off funding to any overseas family-planning group that provides information on abortion.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry not stick at all.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry no stick at all.

I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.

President Gamal Abdel Nasser was aware when he closed the Gulf of Aqaba and drove out the U.N. peacekeeping force that Israel had no choice but to fight. Nasser not only threatened the very existence of Israel but defied the governments of France, Great Britain, and the United States, which had pledged themselves to keep Aqaba open.

It wasn't just the British foreign secretary whose time was taken up dealing with such things, but the foreign ministers—and in many cases, the prime ministers and presidents and kings—of all the powers, and often over struggles even less significant than that which entangled Curt Prüfer. Amid this din of complaint and trivial offense, how to know what really mattered, how to identify the true crisis when it came along?

think in terms of Iran, our differences with Iran stem from policies and actions of its government, and we've talked about that for some time, specifically the support for international terrorist groups, the opposition to Arab-Israeli peace process, their pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the ballistic missile systems with which to deliver such weapons, and their poor human rights record.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

The theory of man-made global warming and climate change based on human greenhouse gas emissions is the greatest international scientific fraud ever perpetrated on the world's citizens!

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Soldiers defending a country at war are not subject to the rules of procedure designed for court trials. For example, if a soldier encounters an enemy, under internationally agreed upon rules of war, that soldier can take whatever action is necessary to protect himself and neutralize his enemy, whether it involves capturing and detaining the enemy or killing him on the spot.

War is failure of diplomacy.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy life.

Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.