So the president set out the policy guidance and said it…

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

— Donald Rumsfeld

What needs to happen in a public health crisis? The federal government must establish a national roadmap with clear goals and evidence-based policy guidance.

— Leana S. Wen

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

— John Lennon

The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we…

— John F. Kennedy

I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same…

— Bobby Jindal

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