We can't speak day after day about globalization without…

The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for…

— Goran Persson

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

— Antonio Guterres

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

— Joschka Fischer

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something…

— Condoleezza Rice

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in…

— Mitchell Reiss

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national…

— Paul Wolfowitz

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have…

— Hans Blix

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation…

— Roberto Azevedo

The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for…

— Miroslav Lajcak

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage…

— Elliott Abrams

Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.

— James Cameron

Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when…

— Samantha Power

For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral…

— Victor Fung

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

— Urjit Patel

We want to approach this in a multilateral way, talking with our friends, consulting with our security council colleagues in the United Nations, hoping…

— Colin Powell