Each blockage is a blockage. Each impasse is an impasse. You have to find a solution; there is no recipe that fits each one of them.

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

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.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.