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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 about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes. -- Condoleezza Rice
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. -- Elliott Abrams
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system. -- Joschka Fischer
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. -- Brian De Palma
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. -- Gustav Heinemann
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors. -- Anna Lindh
I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together. -- Ed Miliband
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime. -- Vicente Fox
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. -- Elliott Abrams
A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation. -- Victor Fung
So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process. -- Mitchell Reiss
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 of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors. -- Roberto Azevedo
The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. -- 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 the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. -- Hans Blix
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 framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels. -- Victor Fung
Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family. -- Paul Cellucci
What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined. -- Paul Singer
There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission. -- Vint Cerf
There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. -- David Miliband
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations -- Brian De Palma
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 favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. -- George W. Bush
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
A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone. -- George P. Shultz
I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States. -- Joschka Fischer
Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. -- Pal Schmitt

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