Peter Maurer Quotes

Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.

At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.

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

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

How are we going to make the people of the United States realize that if they want peace in the future they must make the sacrifices that are required to bring about economic improvement in a great many countries?

Americans and Europeans share a common goal - to build an enduring peace based on freedom.

The U.N. was created for people.

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

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

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

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

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.

We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

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.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

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