For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic…

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're…

— Wesley Clark

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff…

— Victor Fung

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

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

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

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