Barney Frank Quotes

I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

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

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

If governments do not want to work with the U.N. and the international organizations, there is a limit to what you can do. And there is also a limit to patience.

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

All problems in the world today are multilateral, and all these one-on-one agreements simply aren't going to do it.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.