Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be…

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

— Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Joschka Fischer