Quotes about "Cultural Intelligence"

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation. ”

Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism. ”

In international relations, you don't base your work on hope. ”

If I'm going to talk about something, I need to be educated about it, and I need to have seen all the perspectives. ”

I think my biggest fear is having another global war which might have been a result of sharing the primary commodities in the world. ”

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. ”

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development. ”

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. ”

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ”

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. ”