The United Nations, and the way we approach collective…

We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

— Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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

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

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

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

— Woodrow Wilson

Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of…

— John Ashcroft

The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the…

— Dilma Rousseff

The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds,…

— Elliott Abrams

“Collective security had a fine sound, but it was still little more than a word; it would still be the United States, and the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

Do the people of the world not yet realize that by fighting on until the bitter end I am not only performing my sacred…

— Haile Selassie

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

— William Safire

Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

— Winston Churchill

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

— Elliott Abrams